Books are the most tolerant of friends.
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
One idea lights a thousand candles.
Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
The never-ending task of self improvement.
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil.
In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.
American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.
I do not come out of a literary tradition.
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest.
'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.
