"I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox, somehow."

“More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.”

“Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what is done is right or wrong, you follow the process. And so, the end result is just by definition within that alternative universe that is American law. Most people still operate within a moral universe where principles of good and bad and what is right and wrong in itself, and not just as a result of the process.”

Source : Source: www.realclearreligion.org

“It's not about going to a party. It's life as a party.”

“I believe in sisters marrying brothers, and brothers having their sisters for wives... This is something pertaining to our marriage relation. The whole world will think what an awful thing it is. What an awful thing it would be if the Mormons should just say we believe in marrying brothers and sisters.”

“Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.”

“I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com

“Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.”

Source : Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

“Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.”

Source : G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.47, Cambridge University Press