Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle had touched us, and fled, and left us groping vainly. And we felt torn, torn for some word we could not find.

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?

Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.