England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.

No adultery is bloodless.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

Over my real sorrows I never weep.

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

In order to be a success, you must think like success. Get up and move! You got to make things happen.

That which you manifest is before you

Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Culture is always about politics in the end.