A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.

Eric Parslow

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

Elia Kazan

In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.

Nicolai A. Berdyaev

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

Hayden Fry

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure.

Wallace Stevens

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

George Gurdjieff

When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure.

Kahlil Gibran

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

Richard Dreyfuss

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Henry A. Kissinger

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

Clive Owen

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Ambrose Bierce

You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.

Henry Kravis