Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.

If you are seeking creative ideas go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

Soometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.

Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.