If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.

I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.