The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

Because power corrupts society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

If a line of poetry strays into my memory my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.

I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing so quiet and peaceful. I mean there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.

Music exalts each joy allays each grief expels diseases softens every pain subdues the rage of poison and the plague.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting existing as material in space not immaterial in time.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

The movies have got more corporate they're making fewer movies in general and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

After a certain point money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live and being open and honest and communicating but ultimately doing what pleases God and not in a selfish manner.

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases rather than those who are.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

The desire of knowledge like the thirst of riches increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

As knowledge increases wonder deepens.