Who care's what other people think? If you are happy with yourself, you will get by just fine with them.

All language is an aspiration to music.

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

Your life is what you remember. I mean, some things I wish I still had. But it doesn't matter.

On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.

Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.

I'm not sure a candidate ever feels his message is getting out.

I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.