Poems List

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it--and forget not those who have fallen during the night! (Noli Me Tangere)

Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

If crime went down 100%, it would still be 50 times higher than it shoud be.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

It breaks immortality's neck. Contemplates crime and therefore halts it; It humbles barbarous nations, And makes of savages, champions! ("Por La Education")

A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.

I want to gain 1,500 or 2,000 yards, whichever comes first.

Change everything except your loves.

Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads.

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

If this world were what it seems it should be, it is clear that it would be impossible for one man to enslave another.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

Half this game is 90% mental.

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps..is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains...but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return!

My fellow astronauts...

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.