My double drags his coffin, humble slave, I, at least, am real, though changed to flesh.Far-off, I build me a church no hand can shape("Winter Sonnets: III")

Everybody has multiple personalities—at least three. We’re one person at work, another person in private, and a third person when we appear in polite society.

One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.

I believe you make your day. You make your life.

Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

It's hard for me to put my feelings into words.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.