Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.