Intelligence...[is] not marathon rac[e]: there is no fixed criteria for success, no start or finish lines -- and running sideways or backwards, might secure victory.

Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak.

Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced

Natures and features last until the grave

what a sad pair we are, " she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.

The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.

If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?

I loved him, but I also realized how calm my life was without him.

Pillow my head on no guesses when I die.

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.

I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.