Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.

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.

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.

Ten years later, I will be able to say, "I saw future happen". And, this is the most rewarding part of what I do.

Peace is patient.

In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.

The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving.

I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

Is that weird, taking my Louis Vuitton bag camping?

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.