I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.

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.

Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.

Never stop learning to be who you are meant to be just because you have found someone and decided to be like him/her.

If you don’t want me to be in love with you, you’re going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I’m having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.

Order is Heaven's first law.

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!

We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.