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

Effective action is always unjust.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

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.

Once you label me you negate me.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

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

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.