When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.

There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank, ” Bailey said. “They’ll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark’s.

She had forgotten his faults as we forgetthe sorrows of our departed childhood.

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart.

No family is safe when I sashay.

loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round

People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.