Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.