If you think there’s a thing—anything—women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.

Let's be real: if women were "naturally" anything, societies wouldn't spend so much time trying to police every aspect of their lives

You can survive any shock.

We learn that all life is scarce yet abundant. Profane yet sacred. Loving yet hateful. Enlightened yet obscured. Isolated yet collective. That life is somehow derived from love.

I love humanity but I hate people.

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

Your mind will never lose anything forever that's worth keeping.

God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.