Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.

If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.