from The Tempest

...Hell is empty
And all the devils are here.

from "Down at the Cross"

"[I]n our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand--and one is, after all, emboldened by the spectacle of human history in general, and American Negro history in particular, for it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible."

from Edwin Drood

"And be a friend to me, please; for I don't understand myself: and I want a friend who can understand me, very much indeed."