Im actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.
Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.
If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.
If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club if you're a beer-swilling sand shoveler, but if you're the Bishop of Boston, you shouldn't go.
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
The lowlights. . . Sometimes you're away from home quite a lot, which can be difficult. It's not first class all the way, you don't stay in exotic hotels and have people running after you.
The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.