Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.

Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many multi-colored worlds.

Everything is true, ' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right, ' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.

And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before Of what inexorable cause Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.

Adverbs and cops always come in pairs.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.