Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.

I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.

Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act.""To be myself, I have to put on an act, " Ginny said bitterly."What's that mean?""It means I don't know who I am.

No one book of scripture can be understood by itself, any more than any one part of a tree or member of the body can be understood without reference to the whole of which it is a part.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

You can't slit the throat of everyone whose character it would improve.

I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.

Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.

Swing is my favorite kind of music.

It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.

And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.