Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.
If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.
Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.
That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue. . . Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.
The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.
The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.
I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.
If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time.
When I say a vegan diet can be "the healthiest dietary option we can live by," I mean an informed vegan diet.
Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.