If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

I am one who has been acquainted with the night

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.