“To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.”

“There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain. ”

“It seems to me that being the right size for your world-- and knowing that both you and your world are not by any means fixed dimensions-- is a valuable clue to learning how to live.”

“Slightest accidents open up new worlds.”

“The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.”

“…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.”

“We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.”