I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

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.

Give unto your all everything, for you never know when it will be your last...

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

I used to get down on myself a lot if I missed a shot, and it would just break my focus. But now I stay mentally tough and try to just forget about that play and keep on going.

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

You can always tell you're in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.

The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.

Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.

Donald Trump has stated that his three older children will manage his business once he enters office.

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

I don't pick up people. This is the work of the police. If there's anybody with a case, it's the police, not me.