The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

Life is the game that must be played.

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere

Lessen the odds are stacked against you, Use Cosmic Ordering.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Everything has a limit.

To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.

The important part of dreaming is what you do when you wake up.

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

You haven't hurt people—you've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together.

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.