If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.

The body is a bundle of careful compromises.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

We were screwed and he didn't even kiss us first.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Boxing is not for killing each other.

To please the many is to displease the wise.

Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.

Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind…a mutual understanding of each other. I haven’t felt this way in forever.