Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.
Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.
. . . people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.
I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourgeoisie rather than the good qualities of the middle class which the Democrats call forth.
I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.
Life is worth celebrating and worth living even though we're all headed to the same hole at the end of the day.
One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.