Pastoral Resources

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.

Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.