I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.

See how time makes all grief decay.

One by one the sands are flowing One by one the moments fall Some are coming some are going Do not strive to grasp them all.

Dreams grow holy put in action work grows fair through starry dreaming. But where each flows on unmingling both are fruitless and in vain.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.

I think it gets uncomfortable when you try to act like you didn't just tell a joke that bombed.

With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country on this planet.

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.