A man who has ceased to learn ought not to wander around loose in these dangerous times

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up on its hind legs and charges.

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

Your love is my diamond that I want to wear near my heart. Your hug is my heaven where I want to belong always.

Generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

The thing that is believed is a reality.

My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

But it still feels like it's a reach for me. I am more comfortable doing a drama. I feel like I know what I'm doing a bit better there. But it's good to be scared.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

The earth is definitely doomed.