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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.
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Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.
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If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.
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If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.
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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
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You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
