"I think the greatest compliment that I could ever receive is when people say to me I forgot you were short and that’s what it’s all about."

"Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memorie…"

"In the seventeenth century, it is said, there was a dissociation of sensibility. The poets could no longer think and feel at the same time. All we are saying is that something analogous happened while…"

"In the renewed war in South Vietnam beginning in the late 1950s, the considerable success that Giap and the Viet Cong enjoyed was cut short by the introduction of American troops. In the face of Ameri…"

"There are people in this country who are the great destroyers; they wish to destroy the kind of free society we have. They wouldn't have the freedom and the kind of society they wish to impose on us. …"