And I am a mockery, who was God before.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!!

Your destiny is calling on you to surround yourself with people who see moving forward as the only option in life.

Digital age of business and world shall move up from apathy, to sympathy, to empathy.

Under every layer of pain, another layer of recovery lies in wait, the sweet, forever surprising truth of endurance.

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it's a commodified thing, so it can't be "indie."

All authors to their own defects are blind.

Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep.