A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That’s the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism.

Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.

Oh sky...I won't ask so much as to become the sun or the moon, just one of the stars in between...

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.

What i'm trying to say is this. A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propogating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it - e

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the w

Thoughts are nothing but cause and effect.

I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

The Chinese had a saying that had been in her mind for a while, troubling her: Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.