The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

The only way out is through.

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.