For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpe...nt: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me. All my hurts... My garden spade can heal. A woodland walk, A quest of river-grapes, a mocking thrush, A wild-rose, or rock-loving columbine, Salve my worst wounds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My maiden Isabel, Reflaring rosabel.... The fragrant camomel; The ruddy rosary, The sovereign rosemary, The pretty strawberry; The columbine, the nept, The jelofer well set, The proper violet:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible--that is, that one is male and th...e other female.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you grow up you realize that there isn't really any Santa but the monsters are still around. If only they were big and hairy;... now they're just dark and amorphous, and they're no longer afraid of the light. Sometimes they're the guy who climbs in the window and takes your television. And sometimes they're the guy who walks out the front door with your heart in his hand and never comes back. And sometimes they're the job or the bank or the wife or the boss or just that sort of dark heavy feeling that sits between your shoulder blades like a backpack. There are always terrible things waiting to grab you by the ankle, to pull you under, to get you with their long horrible arms. And you lie in bed and look at the shadows on the ceiling and feel, under the covers, just for a moment, like you're safe. One more day alive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide.... Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone ...I don't like much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »