Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.

Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.

Dimples crinkle up the skin near his lips. I will not look at his lips. How can he never have used those? That’s a crime against humanity right there.

For every King is right in his own eyes and rests the blame to whoever he wishes to carry it.

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

You are quite the beauty. If no one has ever told you that before, know that right now. You are quite the beauty.

I'd like to think that "President Obama believed deeply in this democracy and the American people."

I'd have a longer attention span if there weren't so many shiny things.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

Pass the bill to find out what's in it