It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

Better to suffer than to die.

If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

Mick Jagger could French-kiss a moose. He has child-bearing lips.

At the end of the day government is about teamwork and partnership and we will be proving that by working together.

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.