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.

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.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

A lonely human we think is lonely. Freakin thoughts surround it. A lonely bird we think is lonely. Damn! Did you see! The giant nature around it. Disrespectful of nature if we be, lonely are only we.

...we do not own these woods. They own us.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.

Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to - more so than with the male lobbyists I met with.

Ladies, if you saw me jackin off in a ferrari would you be jealous?

She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.