Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

A broken heart is not a broken glass

Imagination is probably the most remarkable thing that exist in the universe.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.

It takes a smart guy to play dumb.

Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.