Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.

The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

The love for God is the love to protect the environment.

A mind is not profound by itself, just like a tree without a root.

Looks like it's time to liven up this dead little town!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

The administration says, then, there are no downsides or upsides to treating terrorists like civilian criminal defendants, but a lot of us would beg to differ.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.