no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like, ' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

Our only reality is our perception of reality.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.

We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun.

You may not plan for some things in life but your destiny will take you there.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.