The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.