Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.
I love writing for myself. I read them [my stories], I cry over them sometimes.
When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage.
Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.
Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you.
Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls.
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.
The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get violent to protect ourselves, then it's the government that should be charged with the crime, because we're only upholding a law that they've been unable to uphold.
No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.