The South is the region that history has happened to.

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there is no prospect of realizing community.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

She tasted of coffee and day old poetry.

Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!

There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at those schools!

Ya know, America's a great country. It's great because it allows you to fight. And you can win, if you have the stamina and tenacity.

Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.

People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less

How do you know there’s not a door to heaven in the sky between Malaysia and Vietnam?

Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.

I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human.