“You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.”

“You cannot move beyond your current emotions unless you allow them to surface and be released. This means that you must learn to express your emotions.”

“Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.”

“It is important for the poet not to be emotional because you cannot see the world clearly with tears in your eyes.”

“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”

“It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.”

“To Principal Caird… imaging of the Unseen is of inestimable value. It furnishes an objective counterpart to religious emotion, permanent but plastic—capable of indefinite change and purification in response to the changing thoughts and aspirations of mankind.”

“Emotions, or rather feelings, cannot be felt by an individual without the presence of the mind.”

“…when a society is reaching its end, in the last couple of centuries you have… a misplacement of satisfactions. You find your emotional satisfaction in making a lot of money… or in proving to the poor, half-naked people in Southeast Asia that you can kill them in large numbers.”

“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.”