The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.