The only way to get money out of politics is to get politics out of money-making.

Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a ‘total government.’ In short, we’ve got totalitarian government.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Fear, " the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

No effort is every wasted.

I'm worried about my friend not being imagined complexly enough.

Because you deserve dignity, beyond anything else in this world. You deserve a God, and a faith, and a belief that finds you dignified at the core.

Maybe I shouldn't trust him after all, just like he doesn't seem to trust me fully. Shit, is it always so hard to get close to someone?

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.