When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget?

Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years we water it with blood and tears.

If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope.

Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.

Now I am silent, hate Up to my neck, Thick, thick. I do not speak.