There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.
A good wit will make use of anything.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Music is like my security blanket.
Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry, our habit of work have produced our economic nemesis. Work made modern men great, but now threatens to usurp our souls, to inundate the earth in things and trash, to destroy our capacity to love and wonder.
Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.