Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. . . whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable.
LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME to find out. NOW. RIGHT NOW.
How far can you go in life if you don't love yourself?
The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.
The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.
By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions.
I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.