The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone