Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.

I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

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