He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

If you really desire greatness, you should make up your mind to be a hard worker.

Humanity suffers because most of us are living in our prison of fixed, false beliefs and we don't want to get out of it.

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.

We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right.

Donald Trump doesn't release his tax returns and is indebted to foreign banks and foreign lenders.

I write novels and other things.

It was clearly one of those mornings when I was particularly American.

To grow is sometimes to hurt, but who would return to smallness?

Teaching young people to sell is a priceless gift.

Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.