The world of most men is given to them by their culture..

absolute power is corrupting

Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come.

Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires

I'll be so quiet for you. Look like a child for you. Be like a shadow of a shadow Of a shadow for you.

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.

Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

What does it mean when your heart's already numb? You're a professional.