"For one moment seek a lesser beauty and a lesser grace, but you will find no peace in the end save in her presence."

"The reason is: rats leave the sinking ship but we... we... didn't leave, so the ship didn't sink, and that's madness,…"

"We don't have to know, only to be: let go the jumble of worn words, reason and vanity."

"I knew all the poets-their poems-when I was quite young. (Who were your favorites?) G.P.: I loved Robinson Jeffers. I…"

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."

"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."

"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"

"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."