Learning is my sole delight.

I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

Yet have I oft been beaten in the field, And sometimes hurt, " said I, "but scorn'd to yield." He smiled and said: "Alas! thou dost not see, My son, how great a flame's prepared for thee.

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

The only private sector industry where employees work with their lives on stake for the interest of common people is media industry.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

You are responsible for doing what good you can with what you have, and any good is better than none.

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped

Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.

If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.

In this life you have obstacles.