Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

I have known the spirit of my soul through the trials and temptations.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

One of the strengths of this country has been our diversity. One of the strengths of this country has been the fact that we are a nation of immigrants.

We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance for women pilots in any part of the service.

I tried to explain as much as I could," Poppet says. "I think I made an analogy about cake." "Well, that must have worked," Widget says. "Who doesn't like a good cake analogy?

O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate, you can not thwart the promptings of my soul.

I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.

All is fish that comth to net.

Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.