Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you.

But are we human creatures as honest, kind, trustworthy as we at times are inclined to believe?

People do get hypnotized by the hard choices and stop looking at the alternatives. The will to be stupid is a powerful force

Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

Deep down, you do want a Grammy, you do want an Oscar. You do want people to acknowledge what you've done.

... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!