There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

You can't recover from what you do not understand.

some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.