I can remember much forgetfulness.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.

Permit me voyage, love, into your hands.

Goodbye, everybody! (Suicide note)

Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them.

[The essences of things] are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ecstasy.

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice.

To be a good ruler one must be the best of servants.

Every human is born of collusion. We come into this world the result of a covenant. Sometimes made of love, Sometimes of circumstance. But almost always made in secret.

To heed the discovery is the key

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

If you get your spirit and heart right, everything else flows from there.