I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available to a gay writer.
Germany must have her place in the sun.
It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.
A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief - even by pogroms, if necessary. The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret the favors I showed the prominent Jewish bankers.
I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as it is written in the Bible, that it is my duty to increase this heritage for which one day I shall be called upon to give an account. Whoever tries to interfere with my task I shall crush.
For the first time , I am ashamed to be a German.
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.
When we worked at the pottery, we did learn to make pots, that is, the physical act of making the pot. We learned to control clay, to put it where you want it and not just wherever it wanted to go, and that was valuable. At the end of about six months, though, I think if that was all we had, we may have been inclined to leave because the workshop did not challenge us so much as living with [Bernard] Leach did.
Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign.
. . . if you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.