love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.

For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.