The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

A poem should not mean but be.

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

I don't do relationships because I don't want to love and lose myself.

It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.

I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something.

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Life is a little different from what you would read in the mainstream media inside the White House.

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me