By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have for instance.

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law the more you have and are grateful for the more will be given you.

Concentrate on a single goal, a single task, and beat it into submission.

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

While we spend our life asking questions about the nature of cancer and ways to prevent or cure it, society merrily produces oncogenic substances and permeates the environment with them.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Play, as a consumers' good, is subject to the law of marginal utility, as are all goods, and the time spent in play will be balanced against the utility to be derived from other obtainable goods.

I'm completely allergic to being politically correct.

Cooks are an undervalued, awesome profession.

We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.

I loved 'Everybody Loves Raymond' because I like Ray and I thought it was beautifully cast, I thought it was great writing. I thought Patricia Heaton was wonderful.

You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.

I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.

Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts right.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.