It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.

To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

Caesar is not above the grammarians.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

I'm always looking for a fresh perspective because it's fun to tell stories that are original and new in some way.

One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman.

I wasn't a keen taker of speed because I didn't like the comedown from it.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'.