Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

He wasn't supposed to die, ' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.Neither are you.Neither am I.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

Today is Veterans Day. Thank you to all our men and women who have served the United States armed forces. In honor of Veterans Day we are marching out a few jokes that have already served.

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.

My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.