Put your hands up and cheer for yourselves! You are strong, you are brave, you are confident, and I f*ing love you, Israel.
I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.
Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.
Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!
Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.
Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff.
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
How strange a scene is this in which we are such shifting figures, pictures, shadows. The mystery of our existence--I have no faith in any attempted explanation of it. It is all a dark, unfathomed profound.