I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught all the world would be wise since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning understanding patience love openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

I mean I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone accept everything alone.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it dream of it live on that idea. Let the brain muscles nerves every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else you might end up alone.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing the sage in much and God in everything.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

As a body everyone is single as a soul never.

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.

It doesn't matter what color sex religion age sexual orientation etc. everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age but I've never done what everyone says.

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40 and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry it would be filtered through the lens of race sex and age.

Well my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves 'where do I want to be today where do I want to be tomorrow and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now when I have more time I function the same way: if it's writing time I write.

From age 16 I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.