I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.