The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.

"World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it".

The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us.

It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.