Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that does fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
--William Shakespeare, The Tempest
I've been interested in human xenophobia (which I think is instinctive) and race and class warfare since I become politically aware some time in…
I think, therefore I am... confused. --Benjamin Hoff in The Tao of Pooh
“If you’ve got a heart at all, someday it will kill you.” —Rita Dove, poet