Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

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.

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.

New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

All things must pass, all things must pass away.

English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.

You're stronger than you believe. Don't let your fear own you. Own yourself.

Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

I am not Captain Save-A-Ho; I can only save one at a time, and that's me!