Stop waiting for success to happen, and start working consistently towards it. You must sow before you can reap.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.

We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.