A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plight may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, i almost certainly will.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.