I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.
“If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.”
“I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die.”