History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

The head is always the dupe of the heart.

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

Republicans don't believe government works, and get into it to prove it will fail. Same with strippers and relationships.

Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.

In mine, they were just trying to steal a briefcase of cocaine.* That's it. Some flour that I got out of my mom's cupboard.

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.

Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace.