If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day.
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. . . . Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.