Conviction 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.

I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.