Wisdom

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Then, after showing the pill and some graphics, those same people appeared again, looking happier.The Reb and I watched in silence. After it ended, he asked, 'Do you think those pills work?'Not like that, I said.'No,' he agreed. 'Not like that.

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.

The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The earth is crying for people who make sound judgement and informed decisions.

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Some people call me sick and twisted. I feel that I'm neither.

My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? Or does every act intend some good?...

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Once men sang together round a table in chorus; now one man sings alone, for the absurd reason that he can sing better. If our civilization goes on like this, only one man will laugh, because he can laugh better than the rest.

WHY is the word which changed the world.

Emotions are some merciless attention seekers you know.You ignore them they destroy you.

Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.

Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way inconsistent with both positions and somehow still be convinced of their own integrity.

Truth could never be wholly contained in words.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.'(on Ernest Hemingway.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.