She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...

She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness of the finest prose.

What is nobler, " she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

The world says fit in

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

I was born Jewish, but I am an atheist. I dont believe in God.

If you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available.

Night was running ahead of itself.

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves.

I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.