A pretty girl can do no wrong.

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.