I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Parody is homage gone sour.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

Oh God, this is my fantasy! Where those just-friend boys suddenly realize they lov

Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.