The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness

The lecturer points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's decision to get engaged while in prison as his "positive statement that life will go on, " his affirmation of the power of love.

Just being with Nakajima made me feel as if we were detached from history, and had no particular age.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.

Jeff [Gordon] doesn't sit down and explain things. We don't sit and have meetings where I'm the student. He really teaches by example. I've learned a lot on and off the racetrack.

I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again

It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.