Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friendsor a share in their grief?

If you try to cure evil with evilyou will add more pain to your fate.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.

Hey I bruise," Hale said. "Also, you are freakishly strong.

On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

I'm the last person to tell my friends to go see something I'm in. I could care less if friends of mine never saw anything I'm in.

God help the troubadour who tries to be a star. The more that you try to find success, the more that you will fail.