A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: 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.