If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, A dolphin death, O this particular loss A Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried If this small one was tossed away as dross, The very galaxies would have lied. How shall we sing our love's song now In this strange land where all are born to die? Each tree and leaf and star show how The universe is part of this one cry, Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.