But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

Work, Work and work, until you either succeed in your mission, or you die!

Only a swine thinks size and strenght are the same thing.

Slavery was never abolished.It was just renamed.

Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful?

Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.

The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Athletes that can't listen, can condition.

That's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample.