If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

Let us learn how to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead' he suggested, 'After that my own rule is to let everything alone'.

I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.

I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

I try and avoid thinking of strategy and I tend to stick to my gun of doing things that I like and try to avoid things that I "should" be doing, and stay true to that.

There is a limit to what you can do in politics.

We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night.