Pastoral Resources

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.