And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.