I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

To suffer together is to suffer with beauty...

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.

My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.

If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

Clothes make the body both mysterious and historical.