The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

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.

Don't be afraid to take the first step and speak from your heart.

Patience is part of true Christlikeness, something we so often admire in others without demanding it of ourselves.

Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean.

What I have always found amazing is that God can use our bad choices to still get us right where He intended us to be.

Sometimes, you have to go Insane, to Outsane, the Sane. You know what i'm Sayin?

Friends are a second existence.

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen.