In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.

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.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

I've been going to the same grocery store for 13 years, and all of a sudden one day everybody was like, 'Oh, my God.

Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough.