Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves
Faced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man's rationalizing, that we cannot find where the cloud of sorrow starts, that all our boasted knowledge is but an island in the vast ocean of mystery, and as the island of knowledge grows larger, the shore line of mystery becomes longer. At the end of his wits, he surrendered in trust to a Higher Wisdom.
The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.
Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.
A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-world phenomena, others that appeal to much broader audiences. The Burning Man festival is a case in point--an event featuring performance that is itself a performance, which partakes simultaneously of frontier mythology, a counter-cultural impulse, and popular cultural visibility.
That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Perhaps I just wasn't scary enough. Maybe I should invest in some horns or fangs.