To think is to be sick...

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust

I have been loved, " she said, "by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.

When you know that you know to the extent of committing your life to a just cause, then nothing will be able to stop you.

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

Of course I love you. For real. I will sure come and personally meet you myself. Just to make sure you're well. When is your funeral?

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

Architecture must make connections

Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.

The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .

To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to finish them.