A political leader worthy of assassination

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

I have stopped being a misanthrope.

A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn't set the world in order, you know, it's the place of reconciliation. It's the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love