"Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other."

“The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.”

“It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.”

Source : "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

“Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.”

“I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an author's work.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

“I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.”

“If this enormous pressure didn't exist, I wouldn't have been elected. It would have been one of the usual candidates.”

“I like getting to be in the adult world a little bit and then getting to be in the mom world and cook dinners. And, for me, that balance is what makes it nice.”