For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.