Like the bronze statue of the Angel of the Waters, those who pursue perfection find themselves paralysed by the possibility of flaw, fault or failure.

The pursuit and preservation of purity can drive prejudice and hate. Many crimes against humanity have been committed in its name. Purity is best applied to water.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.

Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

All love shifts and changes.

biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.

Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.