Author Profession

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Profession : Writer

It’s taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn’t have human feeling.

Profession : Writer

It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.

Profession : Writer

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Profession : Writer

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Profession : Writer

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Profession : Writer

Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.

Profession : Writer

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Profession : Writer

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

Profession : Writer

Time makes more converts than reason.

Profession : Writer