I'm sorry, " Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.

Stand up for Truth even it means standing alone.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.

As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance