One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.

Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.

It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

Christ made no distinction, but opened the door wide to woman as to man.

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.

People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, can command any wages or salaries.

Love me, and tell me so sometimes.

Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.

The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.

Your dreams are closer than you think.

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.

Continuity is how you build a physique.

As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.