"No, I don’t think it’s correct to define my writing as fables. There are themes, yes, but I’m not trying to offer som…"

"He's after what it means to be profoundly out of step with one's culture yet still unwilling to let go of the America…"

"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."

"Hadn't he been blowing kisses to Earth millions of years before I was born?"

"Quick as a hummingbird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers—She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly, Dipping…"

"We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear."