I hate putting up taxes.
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.
The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.
I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
I was rather a goody-goody as a child. . . It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.
Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.
Everyone is a son or daughter of god.
Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the whole notion of civic militarism seems bothersome, and in which free speech is used to focus on our own imperfections without concern for the ghastly nature of our enemies.