…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.

My only two weapons: time and silence.

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.

The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!

A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!

Officers came and went and were never a part of daily life.

Eleanor let his words hit her full on.

You can't expect someone to understand your journey, when they've hardly lived one of their own.

We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.Yes, but the bank is only made of men.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, Wat ye how she cheated me, As I came o'er the braes of Balloch?

He is my dog, Toto," answered Dorothy. "Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion. "Neither. He's a-- a-- a meat dog," said the girl.

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.