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

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.

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.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

We attract what we're meant to because we're aware & self-empowered enough to choose most of the time. Other times we have lessons to learn

There is no adventure like the journey of life.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.

I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics

The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.

I don't believe that the Earth's but about 9,000 years old.

A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.