When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

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 is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.

We children learned responsibility automatically.

Since you know God understands, you can boldly go to him.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.

I had a weimaraner for 11 years called China, and he was a great dog, a bit mad. They're massive, weimaraners; they've got big floppy ears. They look like a pointer, but they're liver-coloured.

People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.