I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your f-kin' mouth.
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
The ways we miss our lives are life.
Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains.
We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.
The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No 'primacy' in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a record.