I have heard arguments ... in favor of pardoning D. M. Bennett, convicted of sending obscene matter through the mails, viz., a pam...phlet [by Ezra Hervey Heywood] of a polemical character in favor of free love. While I am satisfied that Bennett ought not to have been convicted, I am not satisfied that I ought to undertake to correct the mistakes of the courts--constantly persisted in--by the exercise of the pardoning power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Heywood Floyd: Can't you think of anything else you want for your birthday? Something very special? "Squirt" Floyd: Yes. ...>Heywood Floyd: What? "Squirt" Floyd: A bushbaby.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dr. Floyd, I hope you don't think I'm being too inquisitive but perhaps you can clear up the great big mystery about what has been... going on up there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Ireson's, out from Marblehead!... Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart by the women of Marblehead!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Arnold Bennett says that the horror of marriage lies in its "dailiness." All acuteness of relationship is rubbed away by this. The... truth is more like this: life--say 4 days out of 7Mbecomes automatic; but on the 5th day a bead of sensation (between husband and wife) forms which is all the fuller and more sensitive because of the automatic customary unconscious days on either side. That is to say the year is marked by moments of great intensity. Hardy's "moments of vision." How can a relationship endure for any length of time except under these conditions?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martha, your father told me something once, a long time ago, when I first started to work with him: In the war of science, many pe...ople must die before any victory can be won.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and ...background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »