Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.