A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”
“One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.”