A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

We are the hero of our own story.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

... I firmly believe that a woman can be whatever she wants to be if she sets her mind to it.

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.

Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.

99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press

The stars above will be below when man has Love.

There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.