We left you there, lonely, Beauty your power, Wisdom your watchman, To hold the clay tower.from 'The Tale of the Tiger Tree

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?

They tried to get me - I got them first! [Suicide.]

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

There is nothing more uplifting than love, except love with kindness.

It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics.

Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

As soon as you have someone who's providing stuff to react to, especially working with a baby, it's great.

Expecting hell, we're ill prepared for heaven.

It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry.