A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.

Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.

Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?

It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins

It's coexistence or no existence.

Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me!

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.