You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

Fermentation equals civilization.

The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.