love needs too much help, he said.hate takes care of itself.

hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.

waitingin a life full of little storiesfor a death to come

it's so easy to be a poetand so hard to be a man.

I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie.

it's good to have things done withwhen they don't workit's also good not to hateor even forgetthe person you've failed with.

I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.

I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand awkward in that way.there's nothing better than the jokeof usthe seriousness of usthe dullness of us

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

the lies of centuries, the lies of love, the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end.

for meobedience to another is the decay of self.for though every being is similareach being is differentand to herd our differencesunder one lawdegrades each self.

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience"."What's pessimism?" I said."Religion without God.

We’re all looking for a bit of recognition, even if it’s the unconscious and hypocritical need for attention over the fact that we’re not publically seeking out attention.

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

The end and aim of all education is the development of character.

It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward, but is likely to vary largely according to what we do.

the best committee's a committee of one!

White is too brilliant to be seen, so yellow is its filter, its costume, revealing that pure light has not only brightness but emotional resonance and depth.

I have such a little face.

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.