Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

Everywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there they were men women children dogs cows wild pigs little rabbits cats lizards and animals. That is the way it was. And everybody dogs cats sheep rabbits and lizards and children all wanted to tell ... all about themselves.

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.