Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry..

How can I dispose of myself with it?.

And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do..

I know my sound when i hear it. My stroke is just my stroke..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us..

Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around..

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have..

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate..

The bravest are the tenderest..

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over..

White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life..

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here..

Time is 'to make'. it is not 'to have'..

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing..

By Thy power, let there be peace, O God!.

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't..

We are only what we do, not what we say we are..

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically..