Who has believed in the world and died with its name on his lips?

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

Life is like a balancing act and we are always just a step away from a fall.

Love is a snowflake for no two are ever the same.

It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down—It was not Night, for all the BellsPut out their Tongues, for Noon.

Unfortunately for humanity, God is patient enough to actually enjoy watching the grass grow.

Most men fail not through lack of education but from lack of dogged determination from lack of dauntless will.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.