Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.
If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.
Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.
A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.
Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.
It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?