Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.

How long will the heathens rage?

I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.

I worry that drugs have forced us to be more creative than we really are.

If you can tell the world who you are and what you believe without breaking stride or hesitating, you are happy with yourself.

A dark hour makes Jesus bright.

friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there

Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral

I see through my eyes, not with them.