As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

Depression is not 'anger turned inward'; if anything, anger is depression turned outward. Follow the trail of anger inward, and there you will find the small, still voice of pain.

Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

What we want to do is keep from hindering. If it's impossible to help, it's always possible to hinder.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pubs out on the street, just having your pint as the sun is setting.

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

Remember that,” he groaned. “And tell everyone you know.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.