I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.

For your love I have uprooted all my desires, I am no more demanding...

The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality.

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.

By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.