Marriage partners are to serve each other. Elevate, help, teach, strengthen each other, but above all, serve. Raise their children honorably, lovingly and with detachment. A child is a guest in the house, to be loved and respected - never possessed, since he belongs to God. How wonderful, how sane, how beautifully difficult, and therefore true. The joy of responsibility for the first time in my life.
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
God, I wish you could have been there.
You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
Give me an honest con man any day.
I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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