What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.

But I would say, you know, if you're getting married - why are you getting married? Why would you get married? Why would anybody get married?

Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains and that's really, as an educator, who I care about.

People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.

I can't figure Twitter out. The way Twitter is formatted, I can't tell who is saying something and who's replying to something. I don't know who the tweeter is and who's responding to the twit.

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.

I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.