There are people who eat earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

I am prepared to waive the privilege against self-incrimination and to tell you everything you wish to know about my views or actions if your committee will agree to refrain from asking me to name other people. If the committee is unwilling to give me this assurance, I will be forced to plead the privilege of the fifth amendment at the hearing.

A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

I do not believe in recovery. The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.