Dance until the earth dance.

In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.

We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

One flower may slay the winter and meet death.

You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.

I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

Words were her plague and words were her redemption.

Not fame, but wisdom is the beauty of life.

Do not risk your life for someone who doesn't care about you.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

My life is bigger than basketball.

Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

There's just something that feels nice about holding a comic book!

As long as I can sustain myself and as long as people like what I am doing and are happy to support me to continue, that is success in my eyes.