What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.

I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.