You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.