Richard Rosen

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

Confession, alas, is the new handshake.

Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.