Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Cells let us walk, talk, think, make love and realize the bath water is cold.

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

You’re only has good as your last haircut.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

The will to win is worthless if you don’t get paid for it.