If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.

I'd never been published when I was young.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.