Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.

The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.