... we each have our fleeting hour.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.

Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.

Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.

You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn't it popular?

Simple things don't interest me.

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -​ so they promise. And I believe it, too.

Color don't tell if people Black. It's the soul.

I tend to vacillate between belief systems. Right now I'm kind of checking out the whole buffet, you know, and maybe in a little while I'll decide on what I want to put on my plate and chow down on.

They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport.