Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

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.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Nobody can walk with me in the same foot steps, but all can dream about it.

Gospel (good news) must be represented through the media

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

Effort is the siamese twin of success

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.