I only wake to fall asleepAnd sleep, to awake without end.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

When a woman who is sexual takes off her top, it plays into something.

Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.

I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

If you play with people who are better than you, then you get better.

Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.