A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.