Quote #25397
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Quote #21173
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power...
Quote #258
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Quote #735
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
Quote #17769
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
Quote #29419
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.
Quote #6980
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
Quote #17475
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Quote #28167
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate....
Quote #25729
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don’t...