If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.

To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.

The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

We sat and kissed and kissed until our lips were bloody. I could have gone on kissing her for a year.