If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

An idea is salvation by imagination

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.