“It always was my greatest fear to die without changing a god damn thing.”
“My greatest fear is time wasted—a life spent. My greatest fear is passing away from this world without leaving a lasting impact.”
“My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.”
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
“The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.”
“What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe”