The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth

Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.

Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

Being a superhero is hard work. You have to save the world. But going to school is even harder. You have to save yourself.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

When you're outside, and everything is highland, it's like nature has its own sound, and that's one of my favorite sounds.

In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.

There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

Remember, if God doesn't give you what you want, that's because it's not what you need.