"For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality."

"No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded."

"But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell."

"There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny."

"Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?"

"Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about."

"Every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below."

"Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel."