The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

Down you mongrel Death! Back into your kennel!

Love me please I love you I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do I give up my whole self to it.

If I ever said in grief or pride I tired of honest things I lied.

Not truth but faith it is that keeps the world alive.

Into the darkness they go the wise and the lovely.

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

I'm going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.

The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.

I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they created the kind of images that become iconic.

We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.