If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading.

I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.

I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward.

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

A diamond is pressure's masterpiece.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

The sacred jar of oil shall never run out.

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

I don't act to live. I live to act.

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?

Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.