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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.
Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.
I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that.
When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.
Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.
All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.
To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.
Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
This great God loves us still, He loved us since the world began and what's more, He always will.
I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.
Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.
At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.
I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.
Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.
Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.
I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.
But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.
When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten
He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.
Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.
I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.
If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.
Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.
Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong.
Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.
I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.
To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people.
What I write comes from a place of deep love, and a deep understanding of all kinds of otherness.
Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.
Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.