Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

Never fear the thing you feel-- Only by love is life made real

[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

We will build our military forces to a level that will be, I believe, stronger than ever before if I become President of the United States...

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.

My brain is just always going and going and going.

It's very hard to predict what kind of uses we'd make of assistants that could read and understand all the information the human race has ever generated. It could be really transformational.