Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Great life, great deeds.

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

The music industry is rolling in cash...

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

I'm not really a first-move kind of gal.

[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.