I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.

There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.

He had the compassion of a vivisectionist.

...love's shadow is jealousy.

We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

Warner had more hands in his face than an OB-GYN delivering Vishnu's triplets!

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.

If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.

Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him.

The whole world is waiting. The whole world needs you.