If you want to serve the age, betray it.

Though we live in a world that dreams of ending that always seems about to give in something that will not acknowledge conclusion insists that we forever begin.

A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.

All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

I know it does not matter that I do not understand.

Life is a daring faith.

If lying was an asset, the world would have been full of rich people

Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

"The Church of England," I said, seeing that Mr. Inglesant paused, "is no doubt a compromise."

Do you know how expensive it is to look this cheap?

...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.

The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.