The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John CiardiI have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.
John CiardiConviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.
John Ciardi