"I feel I should try to reveal...." - Quote by Paul Simon

“And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.”

“We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.”

“She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight,And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light.And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right,There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover.”

“A good indignation makes an excellent speech.”

“At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.”

“The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.”

“Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.”

“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.”

“Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.”