As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.