The steeples swam in amethyst, the news like squirrels swam.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

I must go in, the fog is rising.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Your destiny is connected with your calling

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

Don't the great tales never end?""No, they never end as tales, " said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird. And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh.

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

Symbiosis is a much higher reflection of intelligent life.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.