Is that-am I looking at her beaver?"Mid-swig, I choke on the mouthful of beer, sputtering and coughing. After I recover, I ask jokingly, "'Beaver'? Are you Canadian or something?

The marks we leave are too often scars.

I simply wanted a kiss. I was a freshman girl who had never been kissed. Never. But I liked the boy, he liked me, and I was going to kiss him. That's the story, the whole story, right there.

I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless.

If you haven't doubted, you probably haven't thought very hard about what you believe.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.

Intensity makes you stronger. Emotionalism makes you weaker.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

Racism was never acceptable to the people who suffer from it.