You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?
Originality is. . . a by-product of sincerity.
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Your thorns are the best part of you.
The hands are the heart's messengers.
What does America love more than one white male?
An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.
I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care. . I just keep going whatever the inclination is. . . there are threads that are continuous and hold everything together and a major thread is country music.
People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.