The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.
Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
We've said to the Iranians all along. . . we still remain open to diplomacy. But it's been very clear that the Iranians don't want to engage with us.
For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.