I certainly do not begin with any meaning. It is as though my hands do all the thinking.

A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.

In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

If there's one thing worse than being really angry for no reason, it's suddenly remembering the reason.

When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.

The reason why America was built is so that we would have the ability to choose who we pray to, whether we do or don't.

Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.

It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.

Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.

Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the capital of a state of Palestine.