...when I look at and study the ranks of my books - for I have put the name of each author on the binding - I feel as if I am looking at the holy graves of those who wrote them.

Life is real. life is earnest, and the grave is not its goal.

Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.

I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.

Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.

If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?