I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Saying 'Gesundheit' doesn't really help the common cold - but its about as good as anything the doctors have come up with.

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.

Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.

She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.

Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.