Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

Things are not always what they seem

maybe somebody finally shot the dog.

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see.

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

Thank God, I also am an American!

I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.

Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.

To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it.

In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.