There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe)

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.

How, when and what you perceive - defines your life!

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

Passion is very important; if you don't love what you do then you're probably doing the wrong job.

She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.

If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.