Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.