Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

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.

To enjoy the magnificence of life, drink every drop of life and get drunk.

What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.

Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

Once you finish the script, it's no longer yours; it's the other people making it, which sometimes can be hard.

I want teachers to teach, and I want Oreos to be eaten.

Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence

The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.