I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether. - Socrates
When I think of her life and compare it to other lives more dazzling, original and beautiful I realized that she has hurt fewer people than anybody I know (and by hurt I simply mean hurt). She has had some terrible times, times when maybe I should have helped her more for she is the mother of my only child and we were once great lovers, but she has come through, like I said she, has hurt fewer people than anybody I know, and if you look at it like that, well, she has created a better world. She has won. Frances, this poem is for you.
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Your poems about the girls will still be around 50 years from now when the girls are gone, my editor phones me.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
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