"He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him."

“Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.”

“Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.”

Source : Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

“Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning in that it wants to bring about the truth it proclaims; a form of action, of ritual behavior, which does not find fulfilment in the act but must proclaim and elaborate a poetic form of truth.”

Source : Salomon Bochner “Collected Papers of Salomon Bochner”, American Mathematical Soc.

“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”

Source : "Did You Know?/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It's no secret that our nation's public universities want to transform American young people into a bunch of hyper-sensitive, intellectually-neutered cream puffs.”

Source : "Back to School: Let the left-wing indoctrination begin" by Todd Starnes, www.foxnews.com. September 1, 2015.

“She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.”

“You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small," I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. "Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.”

“Who needs Satan when you have a God like this?”