The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past.

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering.

circumstances and destiny together play role to our foundation

We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way

Jest with your equals.

I've just always loved animals.

I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.

God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.