Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?

Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.

My parents could not be more Italian.

Every puppy should have a boy.

The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

Oh, Cena. You must think that I was born yesterday.