"I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow."

“I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.”

“I lost 28 pounds in my divorce…because that's what a soul weighs.”

“Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.”

“I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.”

“Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.”

Source : Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “From My Writings and My Evenings: Essays on Thoughts and Truth”, p.4, Open Road Media

“Given the choice, I would spend my money on accessories.”

“As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.”

“The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.”