You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.

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.

Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

There is no failure except the failure of trying.

Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.

The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.