People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.

After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.