Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

Disregard nuisances and obstacles, for they are merely a brush-stroke on the bigger picture

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I feel liquefied, like a cucumber forgotten in the crisper drawer, and I want to hold myself at arm's length and carry me to the trash. Who is this sack of slush masquerading as me? It's intolerable.

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of unhappiness.

You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.

'Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.

It's hard to get recognition when your team is losing.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.

He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.