My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.