My biggest influences are strong, creative women that chart their own path, lead their own lives and drive the course of history.
So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.
Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there’s going to be another one!
Ptah? son of ptooey? What is he god of spitting? i asked