Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.
I can last two months on a good compliment.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.
I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.
And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.
A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
To read too many books is harmful.
Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'
A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.
I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.
We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.