The conviction that religion must be rigorously excluded from political life has been called the charter myth of the sovereign nation-state.
To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.
The best thing you can wear is self confidence.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
My only career goal is to be an halloween icon.
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.
Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again!