... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.

Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.

Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.

history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.

The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants.

Good government has to mean less government.

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

It's more difficult getting up early in the morning when you're wearing silk pajamas.

Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad stuff?

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.

I fell in love underneath a tree.

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become.