It all comes down to who does the dishes.

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.

Life is simply a collective thought. Didn't you know we made it all up? Don't you know it can be different?

You told me you would never leave me, but the only thing I feel is loneliness...

Nothing happened today. I slept. While asleep I dreamed that I was sleeping.

You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesnt matter.

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.