You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.

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.

I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice high

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

I've been playing these schoolgirl roles in all my movies. Every time I went to the set, it felt like I was going to school.

Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.

America takes credit for giving you freedom that you had anyway. It's like going to a wedding and putting your tag on somebody elses box.

My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner."

And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.