They will love me for that which destroys me..

The image is an image..

When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with E….

God hides things by putting them near us..

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from differe….

To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesia….

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the….

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..