Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

Every season has an end~for a harvest to begin. Embrace the process!

It's the business of your life...and you're the CEO!

It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Everyone wins when a leader gets better

Food can be mean to me, but I love it anyway.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

I got an email from somebody who's mad, and from the sound of it it's enough to make this person abandon [Donald] Trump.