My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogboundsea the water is a color for which there is no name.

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

What is love if not the gravity of souls?

I wanted proof, not promises.

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

I know that some of the things which happen in these stories are not likely, but sometimes I wonder if they are not possible in some way.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

No man was ever great by imitation.