Auden, W. H.

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

"Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public." - A Certain World

"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good." - A Certain World

"All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation." - A Certain World

"No hero is immortal till he dies." - A Short Ode to a Philologist

"No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing." - in Time

"The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition." - The Dyer's Hand

"Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind." - The Dyer's Hand

"It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it." - The Dyer's Hand

"To ask the hard question is simple." - The Question