Someone bent on suicide won’t have much sense of humour left.

People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection.

The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

So long as there are men there will be wars.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots.

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.