I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.

John say's it's James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming round de place.

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

I just want to bring the world together. Togetherness is what I want for this planet.

Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward.