The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

Don't they get afraid, then?""They have a religion for that.

Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.

People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tries to kill off the entire person.

Well, I've kept you waiting long enough, " he said, peering at me from that distance which drinking adds between people and which, at odd turns in the evening, seems closeness itself.

They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.

Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.

The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.

Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

I've been following Jesus for 35 years. He's guided me, comforted me, encouraged me, challenged me, befriended me, and been my constant companion since November 8, 1981.

Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.

I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness.

Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.