When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.