I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.

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.

A society is driven by “social fear” always produces the seeds of doubt and unhappiness.

You must have brought the bad weather with youThe sky's the color of leadAll you've left me is a featherOn an unmade bed

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

They call me Good Time Emo. Because I love a good time! And my name is Emo.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

Ideas don’t make money, effort does.

I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.