Will I see you again?”I turned to him and I shrugged. “If what we feel is real, then yes I have no doubt we will.

When there is a gap—between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself—you are expected, everywhere you go, to explain the gap.

I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.

Passion is more important than justice.

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

The question is, once you have this idea, is this enough? Is it something people would actually switch just to have?

The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.