A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

The main thing is to keep THE MAIN THING the main thing

All that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria.

Money equals power

We cannot be caught in the bond of suspicion. We have to carry out what we should be doing with a firm determination.

Discover your divinity, find your unique talent, serve humanity with it.

I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.

...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on speaking terms.

I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.