We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

Socialism never took root in America.

Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!

How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?

I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

And you know what it is? San Francisco a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.

We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.