Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.

Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay.

Art is the god you have not seen.

Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.

Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.

The truth which may not be told, is the truth which cannot be told.

I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.

One should be allowed to choose one's burden.

Sink twice before you strike out for land.

Frog or pearl, life hid something at the bottom of the cup.

It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it.

You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

I feel like the ideal length is three months. I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.

Self-complacen cy is fatal to progress.

Establishment women just get mad. Activists change the laws.

The vast sky is not hindered by the floating clouds.

The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is not true. But the reasoning is dazzling.