No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Those who trust us educate us.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

...art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.

You can try to dirty my name, but I'll wear your hate like war paint.

The practice of tantra is about inner-transformation. The energy involved in the process of tantric transformation is the energy of our own bliss.

You do something wrong, you learn from it, you move on.

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

where everybody is guilty, nobody is.

That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.

For me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that my versions are explorations.

Diabetes taught me discipline.