Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Something needn't be large to be good.

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things like slitting a baby's throat, mistaking it for a baby goat. I'd have nightmares of other islands stretching away from mine, infinities of islands, islands spawning islands, like frogs' eggs turning into polliwogs of islands, knowing that I had to live on each and every one, eventually, for ages, registering their flora, their fauna, their geography.

Someone loves us all.