Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

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.

This is the future, ” Lycan said. “Connecting people to each other directly.

No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.

We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself

You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile.

I was raised in the church by my grandmother who made sure we went to Sunday School, read the Bible and went to church every Sunday. Every night we read Bible stories before we went to bed.

Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.