Your thorns are the best part of you.

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.

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.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

To greet the present is to part with the past and future.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game.

it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can’t say what it’s going to do next.

I was more alone than if I had been alone.

Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

All I was trying to do was get home from work.

At one point, Donald Trump even had to say, yes, whatever Ted Cruz said, I agree with.