Whip, " Walter echoed. "So there's an iPhone app for fighting zombies. Interesting.

The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.

America, and all it had once stood for--all he had fought for--was dying...on life support, and counting.

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?

Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.

I think that, ultimately, the only thing that affects race relations is fair treatment.