“Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.”

“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”

“In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.”

“The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.”

“Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.”

“No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.”

“People are too complicated to have simple labels.”

“I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.”

“People don't want other people to be people.”

“Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers. ”

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

“I could not think without writing.”