Superior people never make long visits.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

Are two people drinking from the same bottle of wine having a common experience?

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

Controversy chases the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin the way a dog chases a stick.

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.