Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

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.

My instinct is saying its not over, but your adamant it is, what do I trust?

Whoosh! went the bluebird of sarcasm, zooming miles above Dale’s head.

Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.

America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

I fell in love with the Mediterranean philosophy of good wine, good food and family.

Thy friendship makes us fresh.