Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.

What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.

I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

I was born in Japan, so for me, Uniqlo is a family brand. My granny used to wear Uniqlo. And my Italian dad wore Uniqlo. I wore Uniqlo, of course.

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.