It is not the least of a martyr’s scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.