Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

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.

He groaned and murmured, "If I didn't think I was going to die, I'd have you right here.

Gardening is the best therapy in the world.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

He took a few steps before responding. "You are special," he finally said, and the way e said it made her wonder if he wanted to add something else.

What's powerful about the mind, the mind comes through every physical and when the physical goes the mind still exists.

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

Whenever you have something looping, you essentially have something generating information with less information.