"Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence."

“If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.”

“Don't worry,don't worry.Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts,all those big society people.They were the worst thieves-and now look at them.It's just a matter of time.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Breaking News: Winds so strong in NYC The Statue of Liberty's gown just blew off!”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 29, 2012

“Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend.”

“The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.”

“My fervent hope is that it would be possible for me and my family to leave for the U.S. on Hillary Clinton’s plane,”

Source : "Activist Chen Guangcheng: Let Me Leave China on Hillary Clinton’s Plane". Interview with Melinda Liu, www.thedailybeast.com. May 2, 2012.

“I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.”

“I just believe that life is more than rehearsing how to die.”

Source : "Song: Draper (Carwreck Conversations)". 2004.