People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

To go faster you must slow down.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

Let's all be different same as me.

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

What does a woman want? More.

Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan.

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.