In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.

In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.

I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

Our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere -- systems political or religious or racial or national -- will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do.