Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith
