God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

Ain't nothin wrong, ain't nothing right and still I sit and lie awake all night.

Heaven would be a very hell to a wicked person.

He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.

We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.

I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution.

It's hard to dream when you're deep inside of one.

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.