"FYI: when you see a grammar nazi foaming at the mouth, you are watching someone with absolutely nothing of substance to say."

“Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.”

“But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.”

“I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press”

“I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!”

“I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, 'That's not fair.' When she says that, I say, "Honey, you're cute; that's not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that's not fair. You were born in America; that's not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don't start getting fair for you.”

“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”

“Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .”

Source : Richard Crashaw (1949). “The verse in English of Richard Crashaw: the 1646 text of Steps to the temple and The delights of the Muses; the 1652 text of Carmen Deo Nostro; the 1653 text of A letter from Mr. Crashaw to the Countess of Denbigh; and the poems from manuscript”

“If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.”