How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

Meet Logan Jackson, smug, self-entitled, proud, arrogant, trust-fund brat.

Jacinda, will you listen to me?""Not if your words have anything to do with 'this isn’t right' or 'Jacinda, this can’t happen between us.

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.