All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

What we need is equality without conformity.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

I am living life daringly.

The unknown scares man, but those who confront it, will cease to fear it" (Rodolfo Rios Medina)

The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for coin as he rasped a haunting melody. Life could not be more perfect.

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

We need one strong hombre or hombre-ette, and I'm the hombre-ette to go and stand for you in Washington DC.

In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.