There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.

The first part of madness is believing what you hear. The Second is acting on it.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face

I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

God looks not at your form, nor at your deeds, but at your Heart.

I was not wrong. I was just misinformed.

Conformity is an imitation of grace.