he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are.

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest - If you can't take it, you shouldn't play!

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.