It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

Are we always our mistakes? Does anything we do heal them?

Love can tame the wildest.

That's right! The women are smarter!

I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream will become a reality.

We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead.

My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.

All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.

. . . And some people sing and dance.