All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.