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.

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.

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

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.

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.

All real living is meeting.

Guard your heart against anger, bitterness, envy, jealousy….!

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.