All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

Life might not always be as sweet as we desire for it to become, but it could come close enough if we consistently approach it with positive attitudes.

Behavior speaks… Before you even open your mouth, your actions have told me who you are and what you’re about.

The Larger A Purpose, The Bigger The Manifestation

I paint the walls with his blood.

The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

You don't have to be the specialist on everything. You can try to inform yourself.

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.