The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!

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.

Life isn't about having, it's about experiencing.

The greater the need, the greater the quest for God.

Time is a thief. A killer. Time is killing him.

I think I hit the bottom when my wife left me while I was on the road.

America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.

It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...