I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

Violence is a symptom of impotence.

There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the joys of the day. It was as if a cancer in me had ceased gnawing me. The cancer of introspection.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.