"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."
"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
"Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms."
"Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle."
"Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable."
"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."