A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment.

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

Art is seduction, not rape.