The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.