There will always be those who must look into the dark in order to see.

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

Ruefully admitting we can neither remain children nor all become artists still less saints and mystics, we turn back, regretfully, but massively, to the time-ridden world.

A thinker will die, but his profound ideas have wings that fly forever.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Sometimes you may feel that your heart is speaking and sometimes you may feel that your mind is speaking. In reality there is only one speaker: Mind!

Think of success. Dream of Success. Live for success.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.