Death is the only grammatically correct full stop.

Through silence only the good messages go unheard.

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

Dreams largerthan ourselves we killed, not wantingour smallness measured against them."(poem: Having Taken the Necessary Precautions)

My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis-- a moulding of the confusion of life into form.

Give me where to stand and I will move the earth.

I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

Younger people are generally more adventurous - they're more open, more fun - have you met many guys my age? Guys my age are married or divorced or grumpy, fat and balding.

Whatever does not exist in the body can't be found in the universe, and whatever exists in the universe can be found in the body.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.