The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.
If someone says tennis is not feminine, I say screw it.
Health can never be divorced from strength.
My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but. . . For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.
I'd like to say that people. . . people can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world. Show me any country. . . and there'll be people in it just trying to take their humanity back into the center of the ring. . . . And follow that for a time. Y'know, think on that. Without people you're nothing.
Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are descending into decadence. We will be able to triumph over terrorism not by waging war on it, but through a conscious, fearless way of life.