The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.