It was pretty silly quoting poetry around free and easy like that. It was the act of a silly damn snob. Give man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation. You think you can walk on water with all your books. Well, the world can get by just fine without them.

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.

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

I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.