Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.

One who is truly confident is able to apologize.

I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

Jesus must have been a psychopath

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.