Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda.

Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.

The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

Send the mediator to me when he comes." "What are you going to do?" Matthew knew him so well. Thane would handle this the old way. "I'm going to eat him.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.

Life and death are one thread.

Very, very rarely will I leave San Antonio to speak somewhere else. I used to do that, and it just about wore me out, so I quit traveling.

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.