If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.