I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.