Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.