Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.

I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.

I want to affect people like a clap of thunder, to inflame their minds with the breadth of my vision, the strength of my conviction and the power of my expression.

Say you were split, you were split in fragments and none of the pieces would talk to you. Wouldn't you want to be who you had been? Well, maybe I'd want that too.

... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood...

National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.

I have really tried my best to ignore any double standard. I can't control the expectations of other people. I can control my attitude and my energy, and that's always been very positive.

Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.

When I first went to Europe, I thought I was going to move there. I was making plans to move to the south of Spain. It's such a cute, innocent thought. I think we all go through it.

The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.

I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they [the Bush administration] are liars and they are murderers.

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.