The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.
There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.
I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.
I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.
Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me. 'And I will answer: 'Yes.
Less is more, unless you're Al Gore.
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days has become an infant. He Who sits upon the sublime and heavenly Throne, now lies in a manger. And He Who cannot be touched, Who is simple, without complexity, and incorporeal, now lies subject to the hands of men. He Who has broken the bonds of sinners, is now bound by an infant's bands. But He has decreed that ignominy shall become honor, infamy be clothed with glory, and total humiliation the measure of His Goodness.
We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.
I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.