No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.

Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.