Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

- John Holmes

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

- John Holmes

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

- John Holmes

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

- John Holmes