Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

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.

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.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

Magic is something that surrounds you all the time! Always be happy no matter what happens!

Wow, someone woke up on the wrong side of the Midol.

We really can’t afford to live our lives walking in some sort of introspective darkness as if the darkness is the only thing that we can walk in.

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else — but persistent.

I hope I'm still shooting when I'm 80.

And what is life? God manifested in the material plane. For it is in Him that we live and move and have our being.

Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.

Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.

Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.