Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Procrastination and fear are close cousins.

The road to success is built up as you travel, its blue print never exists.

...in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.

The honester the man the worse luck.

Our job is not the harvest, our job is the seed.

I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

We are blessed with a place that is open to the universe and, despite this, supports this very thin envelope of air we call atmosphere, which holds just the right amount of oxygen for us to breathe.