We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

If there is any delay in that feedback loop between thinking of something and seeing it and building on it, then there is this whole world of ideas which will never be.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!