Current / is the cure for both a stopped heart / and one that beats too much. / And if it must be shocked twice, / the surgeons call it a reluctant heart.

I want to promise you / permanence, my constant orbit, but even continents / are revisions. I am only your diving bell in water / hemmed by shifting plates.

Belief is blind but with patience it too shall become apparent in due time.

Nothing can stop you from being happy except yourself. Focus on positive thoughts.

The sacred space in time is irreplaceable.

Charlotte blanched. 'I'm only a maid, miss.''A maid is still a woman.

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.

I'm trying to think if there was ever the Lenny Bruce-y, observational, George Carlin kind of magician: "You know what I hate is ..." I don't think that ever existed.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.