whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take.

Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.

Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

There is only one history of any importance and it is the history of what you once believed in and the history of what you came to believe in.

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

It is better to fail at perfection than it is to succeed at mediocrity.

Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I’m not ashamed of my illness. I’ve been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.

Silena, take the Aphrodite crew to the Queens-Midtown Tu

Themistocles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks I govern the Athenians you my wife govern me your son governs you."

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

The hope of reward is the solace of labor.

To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.