It was simpler just to keep things simple.

To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper.

What kind of dark, twisted mind preys on young women? I think it was Poe that said the death of a beautiful woman is the most poetical thing in the universe, and if that was true… I was John Milton.

Let's Level the Playing Field!

You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me, " I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

A determinate purpose of life and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

I wasn't being critical of myself in the way I can normally be, and I was letting myself follow through with stuff. It was like a prolonged spontaneity.

We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other.

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.