If I didn't laugh, absurdity would get the best of me.
It isn't drugs addicts have to give up. It's misery.
Life and love are never what you think they are.
The great novels are deterrents. A Merck's manual on how not to live.
What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can't control.
Maybe there is no justice, just different degrees of injustice.
A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself.
All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives.
The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.
Even blind alleys lead somewhere.
Desires are only a problem when the means to fulfill them are not available.
Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.
Children remind us that we're all children.
Expectations have no effect on the harvest.
The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom.
Be a poet in action as well as in words.
Talking to people is the most educational thing I know.
I love to talk to people who love to talk. The warmth, the energy, the humanity.
A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine.
What is is plenty, but more is never enough.