Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.
A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.