Man is a plant, and its gardener. But it is only his soil that lets him rise, and it is only gardening himself, that may allow him to bear fruit.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which it could in an instant.

Another roof, another proof.

The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.