Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

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.

When someone makes you a priority it is Great! When you make yourself a priority it is Brilliant!~

Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility.

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

I find that if I've taken care of myself first, I can then be there fully for everyone else.

I think the big news there - most post-menopausal women I know are not celibate.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.