martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.

Istanbul ... the constant beating of the wave of the East against the rock of the West.

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.

You don't have to be sincere yourself to recognize sincerity when you see it. Any more than you have to be insane to recognize insanity.

impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to.

Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.

Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.

... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.

Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love—be there for others—bring a little light into someone's day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest.

You can't even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels.

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.

True revolutions ... restore more than they destroy.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

...the law which is never to be broken is never required.

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

I only really work when I want to.

I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.