where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

small talk comes from small bones

Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.