Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Sometime I think; and sometime I am.

My poems mean what people take them to mean.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.

The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.

Everything changes but the avant-garde.