Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.

We are not meant to spend the rest of our lives underground. We need to go home and tell a strange story that no one will believe.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

The Harvard Lampoon itself, which had a pretty stellar run in the '60s.

If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.