So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Everything seems an echo of something else.

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you have never heard of the prophecy! What would you do?

It is not so important what deeds we do when times are good, but what good we do in bad times.

Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.

There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and love, as well as pain!

The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

Creeds are not straitjackets, but guardrails that keep us safe.

Obviously the fans are very important to me, in fact they mean everything to me and they are the people I try to please when I play.