We prove, we do not explain, our birth.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

It's not a romance, it's a love story.

There was something about ink curling across a man’s bulging bicep that invoked the dance of horniness.

We're going to be World Champions...forever.

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.

When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

Life is a climb but once you get to the top you'll realize that the view is beautiful!!

If Pakistan NSA wants to come he is welcome. But talks will only be on terrorism. No scope for expansion of agenda.