Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.