The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.

Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

In the beginning said a Persian poet - Allah took a rose a lily a dove a serpent a little honey a Dead Sea apple and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram - it was a woman.

With profound love, kindness, and harmony trees are endlessly extending their blessings. That is why we are still living.

Sadly, there are writers who wouldn't know an umlaut from an omelet.

Double-mindedness means the faculty of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind and accepting both of them. We talk out of both corners of our mouths at once.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize.

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

She fell apart because that's what happens.

I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.

Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.