Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep

How far away the stars seem, and how farIs our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart!

Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is saidIt was the dream itself enchanted me("The Circus Animal's Desertion")

O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Take charge of your life and multiply it. Be in control of your life and your time.

Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

Your dollar cheeseburger isn't a dollar if you factor in what it's going to cost in health care.

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?