Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time. . . and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.
There are no innocent bystanders.
Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.
If you're gonna sing, sing loud.
Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!
Based on my own experiences, I made sure, and I'm proud of this, that the Common Core curriculum is hard on plagiarizers.