Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.