Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.