Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.-Leonard Cohen

It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts.

Compassion is not something you have

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Evil is just a point of view

All the good you've ever done does not make it permissible to sin now.

The European public has always been great to me.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

I see now that true love isn’t fickle; it's what we put into it. If we work hard at loving someone, then no one can corrupt the love we have.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.