Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.
Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.
J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.