Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful.

Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

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.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

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

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.

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.