Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?
We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.
But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
We'll know we've got it right when they choose for themselves," he used to say. That doesn't make sense. 'That's what I thought too. I asked him what he meant, but he just shrugged. I don't think he knew himself. But I keep thinking maybe that stray ...
Do you think there is heaven or hell? he signed. ‘I don’t know. Not in the Christian way, if that’s what you mean. I think people have a right to believe in whatever they want. I just don’t.’… If someone came in here and gave you positive...
Art is not in some far-off place.
As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.
Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.
Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart.
I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.
I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.
If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.
