Dream anything hard enough, and it can be yours.

We are all capable of loving.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc to lap, a many-legged beast trundling with joy and vision.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

This is a cliché, but never listen to anyone who says “You can’t do that”. Those are usually the people who can’t do it. Not you.

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!

The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.