Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.

Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.

It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.