I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

They have rights who dare defend them.

Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.

In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.

I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't think about the readers at that moment of writing.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.