You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Everything seems an echo of something else.

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

The sun rises each morning to shed light on the things we may have overlooked the day before.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

Rocks are more co-operative than people.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

Bitcoin isn't tied to any commodity - besides trust.

For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.