True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

How can we live our lives without God?

Vampire Willow Rosenberg: "In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.

His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows.

All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.