Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.

I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.

If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Give me an athlete and I'll give you an army.

The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.

I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that’s all.

[Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers.

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him? That would make me abandon him? I can’t think of one. I'm sorry. Except if he did something bad to the kids - now we've got a problem.

In spite of all that doctors know, and their studies never end, the best cure of all when spirits fall is a kind note from a friend.

Sometimes the impressions are just general feelings. Sometimes the direction comes so clearly and so unmistakably that it can be written down like spiritual dictation.