The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.