A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.

The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.

You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't express, and it hurts me. So I go home and burnish it and polish it and weld it to a rhythmic frame, make the dull colors gleam, mute the garish artificiality to pastels, so it doesn't hurt any more: that's my poem. I know what they want to say, and I say it for them.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.