Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

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

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

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest - until your good is better and your better is best.

Grub first, then ethics.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.