Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.

You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.