The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.
I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.
What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.
The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.
He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.
I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.
. . . all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.
They are the carrion birds of humanity. . . [speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens. . . The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.
Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national security for its citizens.
Intentions are the triggers for transformation in the body. If you want to wiggle your toes, you do it through intention.
It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.