He'd been told that women were sensitive about such things, as if a scar could somehow ruin their beauty, but scars were just stories told in flesh...

On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.

[W]hen all else fails, kill it with fire.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

Architecture is frozen music.

Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head .

We're making so many images today and it's unbelievable. I shoot stuff all the time. I try to figure a lot out before I paint. I do a tremendous amount of shooting.

Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.