Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
I broke with my religion in college.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Religion is just mind control.
There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.
Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
Music is love in search of a word.
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
I don't have a superpower.
Happiness is activity of soul.
Happiness is a state of activity.
I grew up cursing a lot.
The Earth is what we all have in common.
In like a dimwit, out like a light.
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the...
After breakfast I spent an hour cleaning my revolver and trying my skill at a target. Jane shook her head, probably thinking that bullets were vain against demonic powers. But Perdita was hugely delighted with the shining little instrument and wanted...
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is m...
I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.
Art is good but it isn't the best.
