Not to wish too hard for a shift in circumstances since it never happens as you imagine.

Sweetie, this is Hell. We invented paperwork.

I just want to see places – something inside me just makes me keep moving.

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer.

O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing.

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.

I went to a record store, they said they specialized in hard-to-find records. Nothing was alphabetized!

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.