Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

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.

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A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.

I think I'm a character actress in a leading lady's body, but the industry doesn't really see me that way.

The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.