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There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all, the leveling up of universal sense which is called public sentiment. That is the ever-present regulator and police of humanity.
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All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.
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Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.
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Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
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I don't know whether my husband is a genius or not, but he certainly has a dirty mind.
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Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.
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We are born male. We must learn to be men. Remember, strength is a force. It is an attribute of the heart. Its opposite is not weakness and fear, but confusion, lack of clarity, and lack of sound intention. If you are able to discern the path with heart and follow it even when at the moment it seems wrong, then and only then are you strong. Remember the words of Tao te ching. "The only true strength is a strength that people do not fear." Strength based in force is a strength people fear. Strength based in love is a strength people crave.
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There are no second acts in American lives.
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It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at those schools!
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A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.
