Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.

Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

Poetry contains nothing haphazard.

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

To buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy.

You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have nit lived at all, in which case, you fail be default.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

My job is to take care of the possible and to trust God with the impossible.

A great mind must be androgynous.