We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.

If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.