One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm afraid that I will die in an ugly or squalid way, and cancer can be very vigorous in that respect.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.