The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.

The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.