Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

Let us be of cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

When I go away from you the world beats dead like a slackened drum.

When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum....

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.

A hug a day keeps the demons at bay

I'd like to work with John Waters. I grew up in Maryland, so I'm a huge Waters fan.

Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?

As much as I hate auditioning - it's so hard and awkward - it's way better to walk out of that room and win a role because of what you did.

When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of meaning. I like the playful aspect of writing fiction. You know how it is when we are kids and we make up our worlds: You be this guy, and I am going to be this guy, and we are going to go slay dragons.

Ultimately, it has been a struggle- but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago, sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching this weird movie that Kirk and I thought up and I was excited to be making film.

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't have them, so many people would be coming at me right now and I wouldn't know what to do.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.

I don't think I am even the best I can be. I like to listen to other singers and learn from them, but I'm always working on myself, trying to improve, trying to be very tough with myself.

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?

I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today's victory on the House floor.

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.