Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.

We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.

Yeah!' I said again, widening my eyes and nodding slowly but emphatically to show that she had seen into my own symmetrical soul.

At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it.

I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?

We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation.