“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are”

“The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse”

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other body”

“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music”

“A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.”

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays”