I outlived the bastards.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

All men are equal before fish.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.

For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

Let Love step down, open the clasped hands, forfeit the thorny crown, retrieve the garment that was whole, body and spirit one, spirit and soul.

A lot of people have knowledge, but they don't have the wisdom of when to apply that knowledge.

...Skyscraper National Park

I'm the author of my own misery.

Pure memory isn't based on recall but rather involuntary memory that's in your body and your nerves.

The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do, so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is.