We are not so good at developing great writers, it is true, but why is this?

You can't be anything but contemptible living for yourself.
—Mark Costello

I see it all around me, but it stops at my skin.

—James, Shortbus 

There is another world, but it is in this one.

—Paul Éluard

You can get religion in a bar or a jazz club as much as you can in a church.

—Elvin Jones

It isn't ever
delicate
to live.
—Kay Ryan, "Spiderweb"

This isn't for everyone, clearly. And I get why it wouldn't be, but this looks incredible.

For too long, those of us on the left have refused to engage in politics as the rightists do: free of conscience and dead-heartedly. Maybe it's just because we're good people or because we're a tad squeamish or, less generously, because we're just not any good at it

Draw, Antonio, draw, Antonio, draw and do not waste time.

—Michelangelo, in a note to his apprentice