My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”

Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea," said Japhy. "Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

[He urged the Board to be more accountable for the failure and noted that the] state's labels affect perceptions of parents, in fact the entire community is affected. ... we can do better ... you must demand improvement and accountability.

He's got passion. So many of the ones we've got now don't have that.

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.