Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

On sorrow floats laughter.

Excuses are great, they come in handy in life. Except when they come between a relationship.

How many dragons does a girl have to slay to get some respect around here?

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

When there's 100 people around you can't really forget yourself.

For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear.

Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

During youth a blossoming and budding forth tries to happen from inside out as each young person encounters what is seeded in them and gifted in their soul.

We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.

The ignorant man never enjoys.