I never want the art of reviewing to ever feel like a chore.
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.
Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.
One can really love only once.
There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.
Every man is his own worst enemy.
To some people everything is permitted.
My very revered father, I am beginning to think that – Well, there’s little peace in this world for a quiet book-loving man.
Now, now,” said Ellery with a smile. “Surely that’s overheated imagination, Jenny? I thought ghosts are indigenous only to old English castles.
There’s no wonderment left in the real world any longer. Or rather, everything is so wonderful the wonder’s gone out of it.
For remember always the maxim: He who would know right must first know wrong!
I knew it wasn’t going to be easy to fence a stolen grand piano in outlaw biker circles.
I was often more at risk from my supposed brothers in blue than from my adopted brothers in the gang. Just as there were some decent qualities – loyalty, love, respect – among the outlaw bikers, there were some law-enforcement officers who were little more than outlaws with badges.
The whole point of my gender transition was to free myself up. If something feels good, I’m not going to stop doing it because it doesn’t fit someone else’s notion of what a man is. -David Harrison.
Basing your identity on sexuality is like building a house on a foundation of pudding. – D. Travers Scott.
It’s difficult to make the argument that one female fist inserted into one male ass – or, for that matter, dozens or even hundreds of fists inserted into as many asses – can really make a difference for, say, lesbian mothers fighting for custody of their children. -Katherine Raymond.
Gay male and lesbian culture is obsessed with purity of identity as the only basis for figuring out who you can trust or dance with. -Pat Califia.
The price for freedom may be high, but the price that we pay for being imprisoned and cut off from the very root of our being is even higher.
The condition of women’s wombs also directly reflects the condition of women’s minds, spirits, and actions. The womb is a storehouse of all our emotions.