Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'.

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.