The writer’s loyalty must be to literature, not to ideology.

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."

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.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love...these are what we stay alive for.