“The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.”

“Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.”

“Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)”

“Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.”

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.”

“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.”

“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”