Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
