"I am not afraid of death, for I am a part of the earth, and I shall return to the earth."

"The greatest city is that which has the greatest men and women."

"If I had cut sex out I might just as well have cut everything out. The bulk of the pieces might as well have been left unwritten were those lines omitted. The full scheme would no longer exist—it woul…"

"The older I grow the more I am confirmed in my optimism, my democracy—not of course denying or excusing what is bad—but it is good, not bad, that is common. Beneath all the froth, illiteracy, worse, t…"

"The great poet digests the experience of the world and returns it in the form of a song."