How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.

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.

Something inside me stops the moment I see a mighty mountain.

If my home is indeed a sanctuary, I want to treat everything I bring into it as sacred.

I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

Come close to me baby. Let your love hold you. I know this world is crazy, but what's it without you?

The day I saw my mom eating the Santa cookies on the plate was one of the most horrific days of my life.

We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.

Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

Can’t sleep ‘cause all the dirt make my heart hurt