My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Keep your eyes on the prize for you cant hit an unseen target but don't forget to pay the price

Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

With the horse I always consider that if I do too much in too little time and I'm not patient, he's gonna shut down and I won't get anything done.

A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!

Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

Let's get used to other cultures. Portray the world for what it is and you will find truth.

I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.