The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.