When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

A habit does not a monk make.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Finally I reached into my pocket and flipped a quarter. Heads was Phlox, tails was Arthur. It came up heads. I called Arthur.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

Argh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Nice combination. Your mothers must be so proud.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!