The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us from every avatar of early human existence. As writers, we are obliged more than others to keep our lives attached to the primitive power of the word. From India, out of the Vedas, we still hear: On the spoken word, all the gods depend, all beasts and men; in the world live all creatures...The word is the name of the divine world.

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

The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as never before. The century would create death, devastation and pollution as never before. Yet the century was now attached to the idea that man must take his conception of life out to the stars.