There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

Life's full of surprises, and they ain't all bad.

It's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way.

I put the blinders on and just work as hard as I can, and hopefully I'll just continue to be a better player.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it.

Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.

I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

It's not a bad thing to be loved.

People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.

I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.