"If you have a body, you are an athlete."

"History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between."

"Puritanism...helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others."

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith."

"The mind's direction is more important than its progress."

"The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race."

"For I am fearfully and wonderfully made."

"When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag."

"Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws."

"He who marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown in his dish."

"Like the very young, she knew a little bit about a lot of things and a whole lot about nothing."

"If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part."