I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it comes to defending that tree against a highway, they will go for the highway.

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda.

There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in a democracy and it's very important for the health and the life of this democracy that it get better all the time, not get worse.

No heart is so hard as the timid heart.