Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside; each with an excellence!

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

It would be easier to get a computer to cry than to get Estonians to share their innermost feelings.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

I love working. I'm a workaholic and I'm really privileged for some of the jobs I get offered and so I just want to keep going.

I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

Testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE!