To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.