The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

“And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.”

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Never approach a crying woman entering a sports bar carrying a harpoon gun.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love god better because of them.