you have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth while but it hurts

Explanation is a well-dressed error.

As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard.

Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.

The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.

He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.

...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.

Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.

I'll talk to myself out loud a lot.

The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs.

What's the opposite of opposite? Consider yourself bamboozled!