Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the…

Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also…

— D. H. Lawrence

“In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about…

— Robert Zaretsky

Your innocence makes me forget all shady things of this world.

— Anonymous

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

— Hector Tobar

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

— Irving Howe

I can't imagine anyone ever again being able to make a film like, say, Summer Holiday, for instance, to give a British example, actually.…

— Quentin S. Crisp

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

— Albert Einstein

Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of…

— H. L. Mencken

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is…

— James Anthony Froude

Spaces of liberation are, in a certain way, some kind of social spaces where people can not only get together and think about something…

— Nigel Gibson

Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as…

— Stuart Dybek

The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: one with the…

— Dennis Kucinich

Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the old joining…

— Jonathan Kozol

If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if…

— Daniel Pinchbeck