To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

I feel great, (being pregnant) is so beautiful. I've never been so happy. ... I'm beaming.

all of a sudden, at the very last instant, he caught a flash of movement.

We are most alive when we're in love.