The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

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.

Fight the good fight of faith

To this day, with all of these muscle-bound guys, nobody hit the ball further than Mickey Mantle, with his natural strength.

I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.

Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.

I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative.

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

The presence of the Holy Spirit isthe keystone of all our hopes.

In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

Only the river is free, always changing but always the same.