[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.