Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.

There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.

The children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of leadership.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.