Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.

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.

Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?""Is that including, or not including you?

How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.

When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the wind.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me.

Your power play can win you games, and your penalty killers can save you games.

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.

I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.

People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.

That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.