One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.

Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you.

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head