The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, wit...

When you leave reasoning & start believing than nothing is reasonable & everything is believable.

There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon.

I am yours," he whispered. "I live to hold you, Risa. I breathe to touch you.

Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.

Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.