Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

More important than a clean house is a close family.

The Complete Idiots Guide to Eating Raw is ideal for anyone looking to seamlessly adopt eating habits that will benefit overall health and boost athletic performance.

Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

Be humble in order to attain enlightenment. Thus, after attaining it, be more humble still.

I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.