Feelings will come and go, but you are always responsible for your actions.

I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice.

There’s no fool​like an illiterate fool.

I know you even under the skin.

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.