To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Lovers should also have their days off.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

I am for people. I can't help it.

You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

You have the choice to be here as a speck of creation or as the very source of creation. Not exploring such a phenomenal possibility is a crime.

Play is the work of the child.

Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.

You know, when you're part of a comedic duo, you can take breaks. It's kind of like having a partner that is good with a kid.

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.

What's love got to do with it?