I have no God to hold me up. And I believe that when they shatter the body they shatter everything, and I knew that all of us—Christians, Muslims, atheists—lived in this fear of this truth.

Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.

Reality trumps rationality.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.