Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.
And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love
Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell
The age of the book is not over. No way. . . But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to me sometimes 'Steve, are you ever going to write a straight novel, a serious novel' and by that they mean a novel about college professors who are having impotence problems or something like that. And I have to say those things just don't interest me. Why? I don't know. But it took me about twenty years to get over that question, and not be kind of ashamed about what I do, of the books I write.
A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on.