Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.