More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.