But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

poets are born knowing the language of angels