Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.

How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.

It's odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there's barley any separation between who we are and who they are.

All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.

Is the square root of hate the same thing as love times love?

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.

because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.