Our tongues, fluent in lover's kiss.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?

Survival often demands our courage.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!

When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their eyes, tell the truth and make them blink.

I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.

We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.

I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.