Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.