"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure."

"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."

"The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity."

"Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes."

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

"Straight men need to be emasculated. I'm sorry. They all need to be slapped around. Women have been kept down for too long. Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once."

"The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction."

"You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want."