Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

We wait for God to bless us while God waits for us to accept the blessing.

One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden, ' which was so cool.

Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes? It's my heart that dictates my decision.'

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.