Temujin watched Borte's ballet, her elegance on the fulcrum of her hips.

People, and boys the worst, are so much more intelligent than what comes out of their mouths.

Evil is abstract but existent. It's a negativity: untruth, dishonesty, abuse of trust. Evil, for us, isn't in-built - into people, into the cosmic scheme, but is a violation.

Temujin had had not the slightest notion that bad emotion can just grow and grow from inside you and squeeze out the universe.

Besides, they cast an eye to the past, they didn't disgrace the ground they trod and they believed in the future again. That's what a victory does for you.

For a few heady weeks of the year the steppe in a binge throws out a wilderness of flowers that tangle your hooves and confuse your horse.

And I saw you and I thought, she'd be a cosy fit inside my arm.

Temujin nodded. He had every intention to do his bit in the battle, like his mother.

Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to any end.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

I do what I do and hope that it might connect with people who are thinking along the same lines.

Since I'm not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do.

You know, I could have carried you.

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.

The good chip allows you to whistle while you walk in the dark alleys of golf.