A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

A poem should not mean but be.

Always appreciate the good in people

Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper.

The best jokes on The Leftovers are the ones that make you feel a little sick to your stomach.

I would let my child do whatever made their heart sing

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough . . .

Living the life you were destined to live.