Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

When soul risesInto lipsYou feel the kiss You have wanted

I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Anybody wants to call me the Triple H of Ring of Honor, I think that's hilarious. I would prefer to call Triple H the CM Punk of the WWE.

To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).

The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son.

A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends.

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

But give me more credit than that. Someone else may have dealt the hand, but I picked it up off the table, I played every card, and I had my reasons.