Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

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 wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created.

There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.

Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes.

I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.