So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.

The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. They are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers.

All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.

I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.", 1953)

Grateful thanks to good friends, who lifted us, when we fall.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that sustained and consecutive thought. It is the hardest work in the world.

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.

Rihanna is mysterious and fascinating

Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.

These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.

...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.