The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. – Bertrand Russell
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. – Indira Gandhi
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. – Mark Strand
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbits foot of their particular religion. You dont really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. – Joni Mitchell
