God is a creator, not a law giver.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.