"Popularity is not an indication of quality."

"I suppose you burned the library—barbarians always do."

"Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life."

"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself."

"A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting th…"

"Do women need sovereignty—not only over their own bodies as currently understood in the United States ...; …"

"Ongoing personal transformation moves one away from the Old World—sometimes abruptly, more often over years…"