A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.

Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.

Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won't be enough to go around .. This is a lie that's been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.