Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Stokely Carmichael

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

Susan Sontag

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

Andrea Dworkin

A man may fail many times, and then he turns to Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

Candace Parker

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

Francis Bacon

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.

Mark Twain

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Anon.

Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.

Max Frisch

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Gelett Burgess