Power: a currency that never went out of style.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea, we leave the earth. The air is no longer of this world .

Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel

The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

Everything I did, I did for mankind.

I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?

People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it.

I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else... I thought that if I was thinner, the rest of my life would change.