The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.

As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word.

Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.

Failure: the renewable resource.

What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.

A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight.

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

It isn't ever delicate to live.

Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Planned Parenthood does some very good work. But I would defund as long as they're doing abortions.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'

Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.