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Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.
I do feel incredibly lucky to be making a living at things I love doing.
When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.
For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.
Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.
My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
Life can be swamped by sex very easily if sex is not normally satisfied.
An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.
Jonah saw God's will as punishment. Jesus saw God's will as nourishment.
Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'
I like things that are sort of comic and humorous rather than satirical.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.
What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.
Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.
I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
Chinese people don't care about freedom, but they do care about justice.
The goal is not to add years to your life, but to add life to your years
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything.
I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.
Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.
Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you.
As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.
Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.