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.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.