First publication is a pure carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

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

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.

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.

Coming up with a useful, meaningful quote is getting more and more challenging each day....and you can quote me on that.

people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

Jesus - “the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9).

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.