You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

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.

He is too presumptuous about the inanities of appearances, poor realities gone for a toss.

Live your life as if everyone will discover what you do and who you are. If no one holds your secrets, there’s nothing to compel you to male choices that are not your own.

Don't pound your chest when it's all good, then blame God when it's all bad.

Believe in what you want to believe in and don't let other people change that.

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.

The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in the script.

I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me

Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.