"One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered."

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”

“Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.”

“Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award.”

“[A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at a bar with an editor at a show and you see 19 people come up and pitch ideas at them. If everybody writing the top 20 books all quit and demanded, 'Union now, union forever,' those 19 guys would be getting phone calls. There will never be a union. I think things are getting better - I bet things have never been so good - but there will never be a union.”

“Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?”

“In different countries the basis of resistance takes different forms, but it comes chiefly from the conservative groups. Hence it becomes increasingly difficult to go on spending in the presence of persisting deficits and rising debt. Some form of spending must be found that will command the support of the conservative groups. Political leaders, embarrassed by their subsidies to the poor, soon learned that one of the easiest ways to spend money is on military establishments and armaments, because it commands the support of the groups most opposed to spending.”

Source : John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”

“My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.”

“What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?”