A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.

The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop.

It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.

He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.

His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.

When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back

Beauty was not simply something to behold

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

The scholar seeks the artist finds.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

My wife and I really, really like each other as well as love each other.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.