If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Never economize on luxuries.

There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.

First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.

Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie it is often better to stick to the truth.

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.

If Russia and the United States got along well and went after ISIS, that would be good.

If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.

If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

I was so awash in sensory overload that I was caught completely unaware when he did push me away

A small profit is better than a big loss.

When I read books it's to escape. It's so I don't have to talk to people.

But they're laughing at you. They're not laughing with you.