I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

The slaves didn’t get out of slavery by first figuring out how to get out. They got out by first knowing they needed to get out.

I felt unready to hold myself responsible for the decision if I slept with him

Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon

I never use that word, retire.

Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.

When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.

If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.

The forces by which the workers are kept in subjugation must be retaliated by force.

Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.