"Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me."

"Man has a need for religion but he also has a need for freedom from religion."

"From the moment of birth, man is destined to suffer."

"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and enable us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality an…"