The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

gurl, if you were a flower I will plant you in heart, watering you with my blood and cover you with my body.

In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

You really have to wonder how long it will take for Tea Party devotees to realize just how badly they are being used.

There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.