When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

It should be fun, working out should be fun.

Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.

I don't need anything else. I get out of bed every morning and face the world because you're in it.