There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow. That is a writer.

It's one thing to be bitter about the circumstances of your birth, but another to drill your bitterness into the head of someone going through a rough time.

A knight can fight. As you well know, I fight about as well as a pillow.""That's an insult to pillows. At least they can take a beating.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn’t matter what body it came out of. I’ve never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.