My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers and protects its weak.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas and I like that definition but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss and I feel like in modern day relationships and maybe just my own experience it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together. You're texting. You're wondering what's going on. There's no definitions there's no labels.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

Well I think by definition all power has limits.

When the media defines something you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically by definition be disqualified from ever doing so.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.