Babe Ruth

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

Not everything I write will be a masterpiece; I know that. It is a process selecting words to convey feelings never meant to be spoken. So maybe I’ve been searching for what’s already been said and this is the finest way I can say it. I love you, in everything I am, I love you.

We ought to know more about the families who founded this nation, and how they lived. One way to do this is to reconstruct as nearly as possible the conditions under which they lived.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

If someone out there doesn’t agree with me, then somewhere a village is missing their idiot.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.