Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.