Without distance there is no dialogue between the two.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Maybe you're lonely, And only want a little company, But keep your recipes For the rats to eat, And may they rest in peace with coffee homeground.

A man must partly give up being a man With womenfolk. We could have some arrangement By which I'd bind myself to keep hands off Anything special you're a-mind …

I didn't wish [her] dead, actually. I just wished her gone.