Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.

The children of the 1960's that you call the 'Manson Family' wanted to stop a war and turn the government and world to peace. They gave their lives when they took lives and they knew it.

I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.

To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

You will be transformed by what you read.

I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.