What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

A poem should not mean but be.

What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.