Buying wine is a political act.

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

Only a smile can make the tears dissapear

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

Men should also pay attention to their appearance and occasionally use cosmetics.

I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.