Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

A world ends when its metaphor has died.

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.