Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.

All too often, the rabbit hole is as deep as you have dug it.

Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.

We run everything to ground. If you see something, say something. Report your concerns to law enforcement. They will be looked at, they will be reviewed.

Do we really know anybody? Who does not wear one face to hide another?

Every successful cancer treatment includes the following three ingredients: thorough detoxification, a change of diet and mental or spiritual work.

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

As for the age of electronics, Selena, I really don't want to get personal with something that comes with a warning label and batteries. (Grace)

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.