Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one.
One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.
The secret to beauty is simple - be who you are.
My main priority now is that my kids are happy; that's my number-one focus in life. Are these little people happy, content, and getting everything they need? Everything after that is secondary. Before, my work was my main priority -- even above myself.
True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse. . . If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?