I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

Good music always defeats bad luck

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

Driving a stolen plane will be nothing compared to the ride with a fired-up Scot.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

You can't take people's opinions personally. Usually what people say about it is a reflection of them own issues.

A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.