Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams

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.

Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.