I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.” 

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” 

“Will we get to the point that learning sign language is a part of literacy? That knowing both an audible and a physical language is routine?” 

“If you travel long enough, every story becomes a novel.” 

“I do not like to write - I like to have written.” 

“Theology is only thought applied to religion.”

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

 We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary 

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.