If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.

Every great change is simple.