"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."

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"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions."

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"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."

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"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

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"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."

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"I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant."

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"In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?"

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