My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

We’re all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city.

Fear has a smell as Love does.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!" "You're a bird." "Now say you're a bird too." "If you're a bird, I'm a bird.

Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus.