Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

To the militant, identity is everything.

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

Fear binds people together. And fear disperses them. Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example - for courage is as contagious as fear. But courage, certain kinds of courage, can also isolate the brave.

You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even.