Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.