When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!

That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said "On the Road." He smiled, said, "That was my favorite book at sixteen." At the time , I thought he was patronizing m...

A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for t...

Classical music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world.

When the past gets its teeth into our daily life, it may get to grips with an astringent reality and adjust our timeline. By recognizing ourselves in the light of our history, we become aware of what...

Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have done is silly compared to what you are doing to your mind: taking a sacred mom...

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Pa...

Unknowing, or agnosia, is not ignorance or absence of knowledge as ordinarily understood, but rather the realization that no finite knowledge can fully know the Infinite One, and that therefore He is...

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those d...

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

Custom is second nature.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

Ten years of shadows, but no longer. Light up the darkness, Magesty.

Resist change at your own peril, Vivian. When something ends, let it end.

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining any angers or gratitudes or anything, and I say, like 'Japhy Ryder, equally empty, equal...