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

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.

Our thoughts create our world.

Barack Obama has exhibited sympathy, if not for the terrorists, then certainly for the Islamic supremacists.

Light may seem at times to be an impertinent intruder, but it is always beneficial in the end.

One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

Truth and honesty is my thing.

If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.

I don't like local, state or federal level of got mandating anything in our lives , in our families, and in our businesses, unless it comes to saving lives.

Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.