You’re the most important thing in the world to me. I know you don’t believe it, but I’m going to prove it to you.
Who is it that can tell me who I am?
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
I collect rare photographs. . . I have two. . . One of Houdini locking his keys in his car. . . the other is a rare picture of Norman Rockwell beating up a child.
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.