Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all the old weapons of poetry kept.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using vast amounts of energy.

When in doubt, grab power.

You cannot miss what you have never had.

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

Bullets ain't racial, kid...they only hate you.

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you.

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.