When in doubt, choose greatness.

Sheep with a nasty side.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.