Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

Total war is the most humane in the long run.