The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion.

I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.

People cannot stand too much Reality.

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.

Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.

Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth