A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.
In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
The Bible was written by fallible human beings.
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.
Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.
Once a viral program gets started, there is nothing to stop it.
I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.
Style is the perfection of a point of view.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.
The ego is not master in its own house.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?
Rage has such focus. It can't go on forever, but it's invigorating.
