If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

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.

It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.

Kaitlyn froze and then said in a low tone, "That'd better be your gun." "Why yes, I always pack my gun where it'll blow my balls off."[Landon]

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.

Most of my subject matter was all kind of, like, party stuff, jewelry and cars. It was really just, you know, shallow.

I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.