Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

If you were close enough to her ruby-red lips you would hear her say, 'I will rise now and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek the one I love.' She is whispering that, and she whispers, 'By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. My beloved is mine and I am his.

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

I couldn't get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you.