Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!

When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.

Color has always evoked emotion for me: visually, internally, emotionally.

My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger; Cast forth thy plummet; see, a rock appears; Thy ships want sea-room; make it with thy tears.

Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.

Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think we all have that reserve somewhere and we pull upon it when we need it.

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.