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Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

The fancier the theory, the greater the likelihood that it will be wrong.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves “It’s pretty, but is it Art?”

I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.

If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.

Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‘Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.’ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.