An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand they strain into the future hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

Middle school's amazing. It is extraordinary. An extraordinary time.

It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.