The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.

Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.