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The magnificent cause of being— The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world— Leaves you With him for whom no phantasy moves, And you are pierced by a death.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

Scuse me—gotta hurry home—left the chillun on the stove.

Albert made of solid alligator—he heavy.

And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.

It [Democracy] is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted.

Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness of heart than at present, and here in the United States. Genuine belief seems to have left us.

Nihilists! I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and molars. Sydney Smith was a "molar."

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverance and survival and a lesson for us all.

Perhaps, after all, the greatest psychologist is not the metaphysician but the novelist.

silence is a strategy for the maintenance of the status quo, with its unbearable distribution of power and wealth.

I intend to focus on the question of truth. That means I do not inquire about facticity-what happened-but what is claimed, what is asserted here about reality.

In one way or another, it is evident that the Jerusalem liturgy celebrated the kingship of Yahweh.

In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.

The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches the bargain.

Arabia—where the greatest horses in the world were bred!

The law is neither more nor less than an elucidation of the demands of love.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

What alarms me," Aristide said, "is how this reflects on me.  My whole  life's project has been to avoid megalomania, and now I've learned that under the right tragic circumstances I can become a flaming nut case.

To be honest, I don't think so. I think what's made me better is success and money. Lack of success made me desperate and crazy. All the bad things I've done in my life came out of that desperation.