Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.