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Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

I don’t want my kids going through what I went through – police stopping you, searching you and all that malarkey.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.