I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

If you feel a bump on page one hundred, it may be you went off on page fifty.