Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

I love you as a river loves the sea

For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

With a little leadership, you'd get it in here very quickly, and it could be put to use on the inner cities and lots of other things, and it would be beautiful.

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.