It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

It all depends what you mean by.

My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

A man's style should be like his dress. It should be as unobtrusive and should attract as little attention as possible.

A good soul like a good body should be as unobtrusive as possible; in so far as it functions properly, it should not be noticed for good or for ill.

The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

Automatic praise is a mere succession of noises.

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.

The pulse of lapping water

Pele was the most complete player I've ever seen.

After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

The family is the foundation for love and for maintaining spirituality

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.