A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Life's pressure is equal to your resistance.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back.

Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped.

Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.

Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.