The pursuit and preservation of purity can drive prejudice and hate. Many crimes against humanity have been committed in its name. Purity is best applied to water.

Like the bronze statue of the Angel of the Waters, those who pursue perfection find themselves paralysed by the possibility of flaw, fault or failure.

There are only two roles of destiny

In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived.

With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

They'd rather hate you for the truth than love you for the lies.

And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.