My personality and nothing from my past would have ever predicted that I would be at the center of a controversy.

Once you realize that there are only certain points which you are willing to negotiate, it makes the negotiation much simpler.

I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.

I am a fairly go-with-the-flow guy. Don't get me wrong, I have convictions.

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation.

A great voice is a unique instrument, not to sound like another instrument, but to be played like one.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

Living in the present is the way to go.

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.