The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.