"The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must…"

"Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

"I, for example, do not bring down property values when I move in. You bring them down when you move out."

"Despair is a sin. I believe that. It is easy to be bleak about the human race, but there are people who have proved t…"

"One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found — and it is found in terrible places. … For nothing is …"

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dost…"

"Leaving aside all the physical facts which one can quote, leaving aside rape or murder, leaving aside the bloody cata…"

"It is true that two wrongs don't make a right, as we love to point out to the people we have wronged. But one wrong d…"

"You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in tro…"

"Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not …"