All human happiness is sensuous happiness.
Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.
We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.
I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.
You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that batch. Of the batch you water, nineteen will survive and one will die. Of the batch you don't water, nineteen will die and one will survive.
People need their history like they need air and food.
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Infectious Disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.