Society doesn't have values. People have values.
Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.
Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
We don't know where print is going.
I don't just talk to the dead.
The only paradise is paradise lost.
We become moral when we are unhappy.
It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.
People feel like they grew up with me.
You gotta mature, you know.
I'm just totally fascinated by people.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
The law always limits every power it gives.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
