My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.
God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.
One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.
Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else.
I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.
if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.
A reprisal of this magnitude. . . has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.
If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.
One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.