Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Politics is motion." John Sears

I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else.

This is important, to represent our country. We've also got to be ready for the Minnesota Twins.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

Our health depends on the health of our planet.

There's nothing better than actually getting to watch the person and see his or her mannerisms.

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.

Souls of prayer are souls of great silence

Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].