Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When all else fails, philosophize.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.

Originally, I started acting because I showed interest in movies and TV.

Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.

Its almost Thanksgiving! A day when you get to hear your extended family use racial slurs for groups are not taking away their jobs.

God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.

I think that the special thing about radio is the off switch. If something's not pleasing you, turn it off.

You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it; it doesn't deserve you anyways.