I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.