We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

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

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

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

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Give up trying to make me give up

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

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Be that self which one truly is.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

A person preaches well that lives well.