In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.

Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production of bad government to encourage consumption.

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

To know the Word of God, to live the Word of God, to preach the Word, to teach the Word, is the sum of all wisdom, the heart of all Christian service.

I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus.

I'm proud of my brother. I would never not want to be associated with him.

If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists.

I got hit twice in the face, and that was not fun.