You are ice and fire The touch of you burns my hands like snow

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?

Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.

It's only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!