When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

On sorrow floats laughter.

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.

Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would’ve done everyone a favor. . . .

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women.

Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going.

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.