swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

His love was a poison: soft and loveable, hideous yet touchable.

Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.

I might be crazy, but at least I'm not insane.

God did not become flesh and suffer an ignominious death at our hands so that we could have sprawling church campuses, programs, and budgets.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.

Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.

I wasn't sure I wanted to be an actor.

When you go into extra time, we're talking about drama. But when we reach the penalty shootout, it's a tragedy.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.