I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.