Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

All the luxuries you name I have, still the peace I do not get.One day, my friend called me off, and I get the world to which I belong.

You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

I never wrote him. I never saw him again. He was just gone, this dear, dear man, this friend of my soul in the hospital so long ago, disappeared. This is a New York story too.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.

It takes two hands to clap.

Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this spell that you're under, to be part of that!

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.