Everything we feel deeply must be expressed.

One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change.

If itWere lighter touchThan petal of flower restingOn grass, oh still too heavy it were, Too heavy!

You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

I want you to feel like you're going to die.

I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.

I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as [Buckminster Fuller] envisioned it because there is a technocratic worldview that I find horrific.

It is fitting for a great nation to yield.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.