The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

Measure your life not by the dimension of your bank account but by the expansion of your kindness and love.

Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo

Love is all that matters.

I gave to a [Hillary Clinton ]foundation that, frankly, that foundation is supposed to do good. I didn't know her money would be used on private jets going all over the world.

He does not refuse sustenance to the one who speaks ill of Him. How then could He refuse sustenance to the one whose soul is over flowing with love for Him?

Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then maybe they will find our ruins in the sky.

I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.