Omissions are not accidents.

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.

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.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, “We did this ourselves.

Death can come slow. Death can come quick. If you've got one last breath, you better make the most of it.

There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.

I feel myself developing more and more of this soul voice, and...it's a mystery to me. Fundamentally, I just think because I feel it, it's alright.

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.