I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.