...the air has that bracing autumnal bite so that all you want to do is bob for apples or hang a witch or something.

I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.

I am not a human being. I am a human BEING. Just be.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

I can imagine lyrics becoming better written by smart machines rather than stupid musicians. Songwriters generally have nothing to say. They may as well be replaced by machines.

I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.