The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

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.

I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me! Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to God alone―if He existed!