In its early stages$$$ insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing$$$ solitude into remembrance.

Each bloodletting hastens the next$$$ and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated$$$ the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush$$$ it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one.

Everyone is a potential murderer - in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill - though not the will to kill.

...But the Mahommedan religion increases$$$ instead of lessening$$$ the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword$$$ and ever since$$$ its votaries have been subject$$$ above the people of all other creeds$$$ to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil$$$ the prospects of material prosperity$$$ the fear of death itself$$$ are flung aside. The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons$$$ they become Ghazisas dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth — look out!

Large corporations have resources to influence media and overwhelm the political process$$$ and do so accordingly.

Social action must be animated by a vision of a future society$$$ and by explicit judgments of value concerning the character of this future society.

One commonly hears that carping critics complain about what is wrong$$$ but do not present solutions. There is an accurate translation for that charge: 'They present solutions$$$ but I don't like them.'