Each encounter with Jesus changes our life.
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.
Originality is. . . a by-product of sincerity.
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Your thorns are the best part of you.
The hands are the heart's messengers.
I was born optimistic. . . I was laughing from the beginning of my life.
War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
You can't manage what you don't measure.