Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet.

A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

...I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

Sometimes she arches away from me and wears a light halo of genius about her.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

For some reason when it comes to democracy, we seem to think that political knowledge doesn't make any kind of difference or we shouldn't say that it does, like it would hurt people's feelings.

I got up to all sorts of things when I was a kid, but I've managed to take the excessive alcohol and fast vehicle combination out of my life now.

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

Freedom for the working class!