Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen in human life in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. That we must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.