You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

Fundamentalism of any kind, be it religious, atheistic, political or educational, is the greatest threat to human excellence – it is a threat to progress – it is a threat to greatness.

Stop playing with your food.Laurent to James

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.

The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

If I'm not writing a thing, depression might be looming.

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.