Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.