A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again..

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter..

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find..

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center..

...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes..

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?.

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis..

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men l….

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions..

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home..

No idea is ever dead until those who believe in it say it's dead..

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined..

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expres….

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality..

The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United Sta….

The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by….

For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, what you north….

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man..

Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the….

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones..

Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to c….