Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.

Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement.

My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.

Dill if you don't hush I'll knock you bowlegged.

Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.

Those who can envision a plausible future that's brighter than today will earn the opportunity to lead.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

The truth is: If you knew you could handle anything that came your way, what would you have to fear. The answer is: NOTHING!

There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us.