He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.

I dont necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.

Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

Never have public feuds with anyone who's surrounded by people who carry guns.

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!