The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

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

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.