Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

Wisely and slow

It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?

Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.

St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.

If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.