James Branch CabellThinkers

Drunkenness is a joy reserved for the gods: so men do partake of it impiously, and so they are very properly punished for their audacity.

Optimism is the proclamation that we live in the best of all possible worlds... pessimism is the fear that this is true.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Temptation is not to be resisted ---- There is no memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted.