of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.