Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

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.

I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.