"Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They're dead."

“I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.”

“He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.”

“It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”

“I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.”

Source : Speech, July 1987.

“Literature helps us transcend ourselves.”

“Love: It is like a cigar. If it goes out, you can light it again but it never tastes quite the same.”

“Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.”

Source : William Ernest Hocking (1956). “The Coming World Civilization”

“A star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature”