Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. |
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. |
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. |
that the erotic charge is very important in his writing. It really doesn't matter whether he was gay or not, which is a rather arid argument, but what's more important is that he wrote in an openly sexual way. And sex is a vital part of his romanticism. |
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. |
The silence between us was profound. I thought it was his job to say something. Only now do I understand it was mine. |
The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts. |
The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts. |
The thing about Shakespeare is, whatever his politics were, the one thing he wasn't was an anarchist. He believes there's something called power, and he believes that somebody has to take it. And that you can't pretend power doesn't exist. And to me, Bush is a person who understands American power, and what it can do. But unfortunately, he's used it in a way that reveals its limitations, and that's the tragedy, if you like. |
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. |
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. |
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin. |
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin. |
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. |
When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths. |