And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid.

There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there, one can never attain the awareness of the Self (Atma).

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic.

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.

I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

Anybody who's mad should run for something.