Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

The wake doesn't drive the ship

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.