"It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious."

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."

"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."

"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

"I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill."

"Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet."