You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

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.

How could I suddenly go from a person who had struggled to dissect an already dead mouse, to someone who was willing to murder a human being? There was no logic to it!

Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.

Like your booty don't stink.

We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.

All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.

One of the primary tactics for enduring winning is daily learning.

I have never seen anything like that before. He must have given his last three managers heart attacks. I like to see those sort of things - as long as they come from the other goalkeeper.