Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics to arctics humanity live with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.

I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion.

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.

Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.