And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
most hated by the dark, for their name is light.
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.
When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
Irritation for some men was their response to strain.
I taught public school for 26 years, but I just can't do it anymore. For years I asked the school board to let me teach a curriculum that doesn't hurt kids, but they always had other fish to fry. If you hear of a job where I don't have to hurt kids to make a living, let me know. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything, but blind obedience.
I gave up before birth.
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood. . . there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!