What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

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.

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.