A naked blade sheathed in velvet, that was Raphael's voice.
The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.
He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him!. . . My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little.
You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him. . . he never bores me, and he doesn't. . . not only bore me, that's too strong a word.
You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, saying you are free to compete with all the others, and still justly believe you have been completely fair. . . We seek not just freedom but opportunity. . . not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result.
The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.
Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.
I promise you, the next time there is attack on - an attack on this country, the first thing people are going to want to know is, why didn't we know about it and why didn't we stop it? And the answer better not be because we didn't have access to records or information that would have allowed us to identify these killers before they attacked.