The human is the only guilty animal.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

The only way to get truly great intuitive information is to show up and get out of your own way.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.

Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you've never been hurt.

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder.

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]