There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.

We turn from the light to see.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe.

After a long period of reflection, he decided that he was in fact right yet again.

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.

So Jesus in the throes of his Passion is an image of hope: God is on the side of those who suffer.

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.

I've always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest.

Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind.

I have no plants in my house. They won't live for me. Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide.

Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.

There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong.