"The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking."

“I don't really know why I'm not thinner than I am.”

“The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.”

Source : Ted Hughes, Christopher Reid (2008). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, Farrar Straus & Giroux

“Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.”

“I loved World War II. I didn't want the war to end. I wanted the war to go on forever.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."”

Source : "The Strangest Trip: Animal Collective on the Legacy of Animal Collective". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. February 8, 2016.

“Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.”

Source : "The Need of Atheism". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1980.

“Heaven would be hell to me without Christ.”

Source : Joel Beeke, Thomas Boston, William Fenner, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Goodwin (2015). “The Digital Puritan - Vol.V, No.1”, p.10, Digital Puritan Press

“If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.”