You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

They looked at one another, and their hearts died within them.

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer, ” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

Fall into the cavern of my mind, and together there, we will dine.

Grover started to sniffle and I figured if I didn't cheer him up he'd either start bawling or chewing up my mattress. He tends to eat household objects whenever he gets upset.

Our people... blood is the only language we speak. I'm all out of words.

The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.

Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?" "I find your attempt at levity inappropriate." "Consider me properly chastised.

I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.

If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.