A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.