Your leaders must know powerful magic. Yes, said one of the women. The magic is called Marx, Stalin, Lenin and Class Dialectics. It didn't sound like very powerful magic to me.

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.

Go on, my dear, " urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me, ' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' You know you wan

What's the book like?""Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!

Our behavior to ordinary people depicts our actual nature

[Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

He was Will, in all his perfect imperfection; Will, whose heart was as easy to break as it was carefully guarded; Will, who loved not wisely but entirely and with everything he had.

This group of experts [in cybersecurity] will set up protocols for each agency and government officials, requiring them to follow best and strongest practices.

As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.

Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.

Wherever we are and whatever we're doing, we're either conscious, or we're not.