Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

they say life goes on long after the thrill of living

Each moment of love is eternal.Each moment of life is essential.

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

That's kind of creepy.

You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.

When you give something, just for the joy of creating, it always comes back on a much larger scale.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea-it only starts with an idea.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies