A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.