"I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music."

“A woman is as young as her knees.”

“Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.”

Source : C.S. Friedman (2001). “In Conquest Born”, p.44, Penguin

“He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.”

“We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.”

“A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”

Source : Washingtonian magazine, August 01, 1986.

“I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.”

“witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.”

Source : Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.3, Harvard University Press

“And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.”

Source : Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1879). “Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems”