We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body.

We live in a nation of pigs and murderers.

...they ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

There reaches a time when it is betrayal for a woman to sleep with her husband.

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.

Sometimes the only difference between those who attain and those who don't is perseverance.

You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars?

To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.

He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.