The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.

I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life. An artist with certain imaginative ideas in his head may then involve himself in relationships which are congenial to them.

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.