Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

In my dreams, I never have an age.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.

In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter…And each line has to end with a rigid pattern. And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet…But within this strict form the poet has complete freedom to say whatever he wants…You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.