It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.