It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

laughter is the best medicine in life, chocolate is the substitute!

State what you want, and go for it, don't refuse yourself a request you did not make.

Above and behind them the Dipper turned on its great handle as if to pour night itself out onto the dreaming continent and each of its seven stars gleamed from between the fitful clouds.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.

What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards.