Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.

Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.

Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.

If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.

Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning-.

Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.

The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers.

lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss.

Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.

Provide for her Future—if you can!—That's my motto!—But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past!

These days, there are angry ghosts all around us, dead from wars, sickness, starvation--and nobody cares. So you say you're under a curse? Well, so what? So's the whole damned world.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world.

Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

If there isn't a parking space out front or I can't see my car from the window, we're eating somewhere else.

Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

Remain focused on fulfilling your business mission. Never allow adversity divert your attention and efforts.