The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

The beautiful must be incongruous.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

The present is always the best, even when its rough.

It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.

For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

Youth has no age.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

Well, maybe I'm not so emotionally dysfunctional after all.

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

If you make it into an Olympic team, you're good; if you make it into an Olympic final, you're great; and if you win an Olympic medal you're a freak.

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.