Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning.

The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.