The more you know, the more you see

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.