and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you

We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I'm standin' there on a balcony in summer air.

When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Words have to die if humans are to live.

I saw the truth, I saw and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people.

My belief is the belief of no beliefs. That's my belief.

Did nothing in particular and did it very well.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.

Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

Plotinus is a neo-Platonist, so he would encourage us to go back to Plato.