The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

The spiritual destiny of Hawaii has been shaped by a Calvinist theory of paternalism enacted by the descendants of the missionaries who had carried it there: a will to do good for unfortunates regardless of what the unfortunates thought about it.

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.