an artist is always seeking revelation.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.