“The world moves for love; it kneels before it in awe.”

“The fact to be remembered in considering... contact with [the] thought currents of others, is that we may decide the character of the thoughts that we shall receive by carefully observing the rule to think only along such lines as may be worthy of us, and which may tend to our betterment, strength, and advancement. In other words, we have the power to select our mental company.”

“Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.”

“Standards only move in one direction. At the beginning of the world, standards were established and they've been slipping ever since.”

“My own conviction is that semiotics provides an escape from the solipsist prison by its stress on the social origins of language--you have to point to an apple and name it for me before I know there is such a thing--and the existence of a world of apples outside ourselves.”

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”

“Some guys live in worlds where pawns stay pawns. I'm one move from king.”