Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I had been told that a 'funny' thing is a thing of goodness. It isn't... The goodness is in the laughing. I grok it is a bravery- and a sharing- against pain and sorrow and defeat.

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

Never try to outstubborn a cat.