All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.

And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.

We all ought to be equal and not see discrimination based on gender, race, or sexual orientation.

It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.