Do not be content with an imaginary god.

The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.

If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.

A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

A psychic reading is not just about career opportunities, good fortune or meeting tall, dark strangers. It is a sacred portal to manifesting your true destiny.

She says his eyes address her like the silence of the snow.

That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.

I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own.

There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.

Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

Sociopaths are not afraid of very much, except for physical harm and dying - really primitive, basic kinds of fears. The problem with being alone for a sociopath is boredom.

When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.