Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger. . . Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.
I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt. ' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose.
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
All the fun is in how you say a thing.
By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.
So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.
What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.
Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.