Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.