For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an “evolutionary” difference, between man and a pest, a noxious insect

Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any break in the routine

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

Today, you've got hedge fund billionaires aligned with Karl Rove, running ads against me to try to get Democrats to vote for you [Bernie Sanders]. I know this game. I'm going to stop this game.

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land.

All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s’pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain’t a boy any longer.

You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian)

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.