Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

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.

The death of each days life

I like to use religion as a catalyst for something that I believe.

Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.

Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.

I want to tell them, "Chip, Kim, there is no way to suicide-proof a person.

I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.

Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.

Just because I’m resisting the wine doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the bouquet.