It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

Every struggle in your past has shaped you into the person you are today. Take God's hand and step into your future without fear.

I was my own boss, but that all changed the day I got married.

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him.

Every weird thing about you is beautiful and makes life interesting.

The claims of Christ are always on trial, and we remain under oath! We are his witnesses for truth.

We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.