Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

Maria, groaning for scraps, would drape his head on my feet as I ate, trying to camouflage himself as my napkin or the rug.

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

Free thought, free speech and a free press.

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Our world leaders ... need our help. They need the cavalry, and the cavalry's not going to come from Mars; it's got to come from us.

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.

These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.