“When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence”

“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”

“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.”

“I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.”

“The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither power nor knowledge, the monster is his secret father who will invest him with a power and knowledge that can belong to one man only, and that only the monster can give.”

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”