War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

Where are you going?" she called after me, her voice mocking. "What's waiting for you out there?" "Nothing!" I shouted at her. "No one!

When you try to build Heaven on earth you end up building ghetto's of Hell

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.

It's not a competency if you don't know the edge of it.

One Christmas, I just begged my parents like "I want to try to surf on a real board instead of these boogie boards and rafts" and they got me one.

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.

After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.

The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term