The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Love grows by service.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.

I think when you get to export your creative impulse into something, it kind of lessens that busy energy that can be so confrontational and pissy.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.

As a breastfeeding mother you are basically just meals on heels.

The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's.