That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.