repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

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.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

For one entire day I let his kiss burn on my cheek and into my blood and I don't push the memory away... This kiss, these words, they feel like beginning.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

Second place is the first loser.

Stereotypes have their roots in truth.

I used to be absolutely addicted to the gym and I do still love it.

Study men, not historians.

Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.