Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.