If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at onc

Everything is possible. Pass the word.

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spirtual and emotional feelings. I

I am convinced that the truest act of courage is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others.

A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

If you have seen one city slum you have seen them all.

Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush!

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each

I've got a very bad feeling about this.

Concerning the war in Vietnam, Senator George Aiken of Vermount noted in January, 1966, "I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls."

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

"Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest."

There are two ways of disliking art. One is to dislike it. The other is to like it rationally.

We should realize that a city is better off with bad laws, so long as they remain fixed, then with good laws that are constantly being altered, that the lack of learning combined with sound common sense is more helpful than the kind of cleverness th

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

After his Ignoble Disgrace, Satan was being expelled from Heaven. As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought, and turned to God and said, "A new creature called Man, I hear, is soon to be created." "This is true," He replied.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

He thinks the Gettysburg Address is where Lincoln lived.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

A new taste had been acquired and a new appetite began to grow. The time had long since arrived to crush the technical intelligentsia, which had come to regard itself as too irreplaceable and had not gotten used to catching instructions on the wing.

No one born with a mouth and a need is "innocent".