As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.
A world where nothing is had for nothing.
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.
While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
All books are either dreams or swords.
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
I had a cat called Dizz, after Dizzy Gillespie.
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.
The Spring I seek is in a new face only.
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
