In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

I want to gossip about forever / against the part of your back that / is mine.

Nobody can go back to how it was. The dust bowl dried us all up bitter as seeds and spat us out all over the land and none of us yet has taken root.

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.

Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

Life is not like Gloomy Sunday, with a second ending when the people are disturbed.

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.

The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.