The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income.

Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after the failure that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

May God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.

I feel like the American people are being lied to and manipulated. President Bush is trying to force 9/11 and Saddam together.

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

To choose always the hardest.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.