Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

I don't want to stir up a can of worms.

And last of all comes death.

If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?

I would not be able to define my star power as I do not know what that is.

I love the idea of biracial. I actually don't use the word biracial. I tend to use mixed. Biracial to me accentuates the word race, and, you know, I don't really care for it.

The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst.