The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, only legal ones.

Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.

I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me, will you. Stop defending yourself.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

Sevier County is a great area.

As I'm getting older, I'm getting funkier. So that's what I'm wearing. Funky shoes.

When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.

For if I am to love truly and freely, I must be able to give something that is truly my own to another. If my heart does not first belong to me, how can I give it to another?