But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

It hurts to get things out in the open, but it hurts even more not to.

No, but I mean do you like him? You know, in the carnal sense."I rolled my eyes. "You've clearly been spending too much time with Dex.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin to look and talk and act and think alike.

I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake.

You know, the finest line a man will walk is between success at work and success at home.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.