It really has quite an important effect on people.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses