Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

Whatever path you take, there is a league of bad road.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

Win or lose, at least I'm doing something.

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Say unto thine own heart, 'I am mine own redeemer.

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.

An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.

When the two shall be one, the outside as the inside, and the male and the female neither male nor female.

All my first dates are interrupted by my fame because every picture taken is a fan that you can gain.

For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.