I’m beginning to feel as though we’re in some kind of cocoon, I’m just afraid as to what we are going to emerge as. Will I fly away or will he destroy me.

The main duty of ministers is to be obedient to God, following the Holy Spirit to obey everything that He instructs them to do.

Authors want their names down in history I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.

When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!