How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.

Isn't it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up?

It's the quiet little hit that is succeeding totally under the radar, ... NCIS.

Living in Paris was a crash course in chic.

An oyster may be crossed in love.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.