It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.
Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Never economize on luxuries.
There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.
First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.
It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very beautiful nostalgia for a gift denied to them - dream-children, flowers that have only bloomed in imagination - but we think it is rather because they have not the faintest idea how dreadful children are.
I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
There had to be a better way - if I couldn't find it, I wanted to create it.
The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.
One more drink and I'd have been under the host.