With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.

And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.

I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard.

I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables.

They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet.

To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood.

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

And I want to be with you till the birds forget how to fly in the blue azure sky and the fish forget how to swim in the blue green sea...

It was a mistake, " you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

My favorite movie is 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.'

Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.