I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

I don't care, " said Seth. "I would have done it. I would have sold my soul for you. You and me...I told you. Something's always going to keep us near each other...even if we aren't together.

Don't forget to enjoy the winter, but never give up hopes for the spring.

People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public.

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

You have Kim Jong Il, and you have his brother, Menta Lee Il.

I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

Oh darkness, I feel like letting go.