The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

I fear no fate for you are my fate, my sweet.

A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.

It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.

A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram.