Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiri...

But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... (Afterward)

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving...

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it...

There were elements of Mad Men at Newsweek, except that unlike the natty advertising types, journalists were notorious slobs and our two- and three-martini lunches were out of the office, not in...Kev...

Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.

A gospel that is focused on miracle is creating fraudulent act.

She'll come, if not today, then tomorrow, but she'll find me. That's the cursed romanticism of all these pure hearts! Oh the vileness, oh the stupidity, oh the narrowness, of these rotten, sentimental...

She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam.

Pluto is dead, I know as I observed the Terminator that was sent to kill it

I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more effective in getting at difficult truths or concepts like whit...

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, r...

Love each other or perish