nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

I love you...", I said to myself and believed it. Finally.

Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.

And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.

Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.

Everything is disposable now: disposable lighters, disposable blades, disposable stars. They inflate you up for one big deal and then they look for someone else.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.