I hate the word 'cool.' It gives me a rash.
Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.
I'm a big stupid history nerd.
'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot.
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
I think America has a brilliant future.
Never fight an inanimate object.
Friends are God's apology for relations.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.
I say peace begins on your plate.
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.
A man's kiss is his signature.
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
