"It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true."

"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."

"You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape."

"Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt."

"I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody."

"I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids."

"When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it."

"I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father."