J. Neil Schulman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

  • You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

  • If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

  • If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”

  • Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

  • The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.

  • Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

  • Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

  • Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

  • After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.