The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.