When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

I have stopped being a misanthrope.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

A political leader worthy of assassination

By walking, I found out where I was going.

Shift your consciousness to a higher consciousness to see the beauty and joy all around you. Immerse yourself in beauty and will see everyone will be eager to join you.

...frankly, many times, the people that we resent either have no idea about it or could care less.

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.

I had always been taught that life was the other way around -- that you had to make sure you got what was coming to you . . .

He strained to say something else. I leaned toward him. He focused on me. “Rape,” he promised. “Many, many times. Until you bleed . . .” “I’m so flattered.

I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little would be disastrous.