Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and one will ever save you.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

We hide from ourselves by being with others.

You're my favorite part of the day and every morning I look forward to seeing your face.

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

In this fall - this is very tough - in this fall I'm going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.

I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view - which is what, along with my reason, entitles me to refute it. You can't rationally reject something until you know all about it.

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our lives.