I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

If you just did what you wanted to do, and didn't care what anyone thought, you'd be Autistic.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

You're never terrified when you say what you mean - are you?

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs.

"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.