The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration
There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.
There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.
Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.
I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.
I think the Republican Party is accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy
In this world it is becoming more and more unpopular to be a Christian. Soon it may become dangerous.
The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand.
Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.