I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

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.

Trying something different won't ensure that you would be liked by everyone. Still.. Go on..

Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.

Death is just one more Path. One you'll come to in time.

My hands trembled, so I took a deep drag to calm my frayed nerves. I just wanted to forget that terrible sight, but questions multiplied in my mind as the smoke furled.

Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.

Everything's a challenge, man. You just have to take each dance as its own separate thing and just go for it.

You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position.

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.