A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.

The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.

Please don’t tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.

Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.

I think employers need help in understanding how to translate a military career.

I'm going to tell my contestants: Be Bernie Sanders. Be the person people want and love.

By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.

The life of Jesus is a life for others. It is a life of service.

If I apply a magnetic pulse on salt water - that's your brains by the way - it'll generate electric currents, and the electric current in the brain can erase a migraine headache.

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.