There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.

Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

You are worth fighting for.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

If you want something then you lose everything. If you don’t want anything then you already have everything.

Way too many people are trying to do the same thing with their lives.

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

It is another face in the new atmosphere of many leaders inside Israel. No doubt it is something new. Actually, Ezer Weizman is a Palestinian. He was born in Haifa.