Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

Great wits jump

Science is for those who learn poetry for those who know.

He wants you to smile and smell sweet and be his lady love. He wants to hear you recite all your pretty little words the way the septa taught you. He wants you to love him... and fear him.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.

It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.

Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.