I have forgiven you. Nevertheless, begone!

Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it.

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.