What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Everyone may be called "comrade, " but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

Life is love.

Neruda had his first dream, First meeting with the Moon and the Sun In sunny La Mancha, hiding in his heart, Where he learned how to sing like a nightingale.

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

God is the transcendent whole of things of which you are an individualized part.

he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

Your divine mate already exists. When you get to the place in yourself that is peaceful divine love, your true mate will be revealed.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.