The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.
“It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.”
“Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.”